Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: 100% sync block device on 2.2 ? | Date | Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:44:11 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> i wrote a block driver for a custom battery-backup'ed sram-isa card > which is io mapped. (kernel is 2.2.16, switch to 2.4.x impossible) > i have a minix fs on it. > everything works fine, except that i need my sram-disk _absolutely_ > in sync. i mounted -o sync, but the kernel does'nt seem to sync > immediately. > so after any reboot my data is corrupt, which is a problem.
You cannot achieve what you are trying to do without a journalling or logging file system. JFFS and ext3 are available as 2.4 patches - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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