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DateTue, 25 May 2004 15:53:07 +0200
FromPavel Machek <>
SubjectRe: 2.6.6-mm5
Hi!

> - Implementation of request barriers for IDE and SCSI.  The idea here is
>   that a filesystem can tag an IO request as a barrier and the disk will not
>   reorder writes across the barrier.  It provides additional integrity
>   guarantees for the journalling filesystems.  The feature is enabled for
>   reiserfs and ext3.

*Additional* guarantees? Is there anything we can garant
without request barriers?

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