Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Bernd Eckenfels <> | | Subject | Re: RAID controller safety | | Date | Fri, 30 Dec 2005 20:31:17 +0100 |
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In article <20051230185840.52264.qmail@web34113.mail.mud.yahoo.com> you wrote: > So all writes would be treated as syncronous in the write-through case (no battery), making fsync > a no-op?
The device cache is IMHO not related to the higher level buffer cache. So fsync flushes the buffers and the write-through ensures the controller may not delay it in controller ram.
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