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    SubjectRe: [Question] Does the kernel ignore errors writng to disk?
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    On Mer, 2005-04-27 at 19:40, mike.miller@hp.com wrote:
    > It looks like the OS/filesystem (ext2/3 and reiserfs) does not wait for for a successful completion. Is this assumption correct?

    Of course it doesn't. At 250 ops/second for a decent disk no OS waits
    for completions, all batch and asynchronously queue I/O. See man fsync
    and also O_DIRECT if you need specific "to disk" support. If you do that
    be aware that you must also turn write caching off on the IDE disk. I've
    repeatedly asked the "maintainer" of the IDE layer to do this
    automatically but gave up bothering long ago. Without that setting users
    are playing with fire quite honestly.

    The alternative with latest 2.6 stuff is to turn on Jens Axboe's barrier
    work which seems to give better performance on a drive new enough to
    have cache flush operations.

    Alan

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