Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 3 Oct 2001 15:01:45 +0200 | From | Ragnar Kjørstad <> | Subject | Re: [POT] Which journalised filesystem ? |
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On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 02:54:17PM +0200, Dave Jones wrote: > Alan mentioned this was something to do with the IBM hard disk > having strange write-cache properties that confuse ext3. > I'm not sure if this has been fixed or not yet, but its enough > to make me think twice about trying it on the vaio for a while.
If a disk is doing write-back caching, it's likely to break all journaling filesystem and anything else that relies on write ordering.
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