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    SubjectRe: [POT] Which journalised filesystem ?
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    In article <1002357150.3083.20.camel@volk.internalnet>,
    Tonu Samuel <tonu@please.do.not.remove.this.spam.ee> wrote:
    >On Sat, 2001-10-06 at 01:41, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
    >> >Does that mean we can or we can't? Is there a flush write cache operation in
    >> >ATA? I asume there is one in SCSI?
    >>
    >> Well hdparm has a -W option with which you can turn on/off the
    >> write cache. If that works (and it appears it does) you should be
    >> able to turn write cache off, write *one* block so that the
    >> cache gets flushed and turn it back on. I'm not sure how to
    >> test this, though.
    >
    >Doesn't hdparm -W0f do the work?

    No, -f flushes the kernels buffer cache, not the IDE disk write cache.

    Mike.
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