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    SubjectRe: [POT] Which journalised filesystem ?
    On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 02:54:17PM +0200, Dave Jones wrote:
    > Alan mentioned this was something to do with the IBM hard disk
    > having strange write-cache properties that confuse ext3.
    > I'm not sure if this has been fixed or not yet, but its enough
    > to make me think twice about trying it on the vaio for a while.

    If a disk is doing write-back caching, it's likely to break all
    journaling filesystem and anything else that relies on write ordering.


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    Ragnar Kjørstad
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