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Chris Wedgwood wrote: >>For IDE, O_DIRECT and O_SYNC can use special "FUA" commands, which >>don't return until the data is on the platter. > > > On modern drives how reliable is this? At one point disk-scrubbing > software which used FUA (to ensure data was being written to the > platters) showed that some drives completely ignore this. I'm suspicious of this, because of Bart's point... I haven't seen any PATA disks that did FUA, so it sounds like broken software. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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