Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 May 2008 00:48:20 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/4] (RESEND) ext3[34] barrier changes |
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Ric Wheeler wrote: > The hard thing is to figure out how to test this kind of scenario > without dropping power.
Apart from using virtual machines, you mean?
> To expose the failure mode, it might be > sufficient to drop power to a drive with smartctl (or, if you have hot > swap bays, just pull them).
I wonder, does sending any kind of reset commands to drives cause them to discard their write cache?
If the hot swap power switch is accessible from software, that would be a nice trick :-)
-- Jamie
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