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SubjectRe: [BUGFIX 2/2] gdth: bugfix for the Timer at exit crash
On Wed, Feb 13 2008 at 17:44 +0200, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 19:40 +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
>> - gdth_flush(ha);
>> -
>
> This piece doesn't look right. gdth_flush() forces the internal cache
> to disk backing. If you remove it, you're taking the chance that the
> machine will be powered off without a writeback which can cause data
> corruption.
>
> James
>
Yes.
I have more problems reported, with exit, and am just sending one more patch that puts
this back in. Which was tested.

So I will resend this one plus one new one.

Boaz


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