Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [POT] Which journalised filesystem ? | From | Tonu Samuel <> | Date | 06 Oct 2001 10:32:30 +0200 |
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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?
Tõnu
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