Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.14-pre6 | Date | Mon, 5 Nov 2001 00:16:30 +0100 |
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On November 4, 2001 11:34 pm, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Another potential microoptimisation would be to write out > > clean blocks if that helps merging. So if we see a write > > for blocks 1,2,3,5,6,7 and block 4 is known to be in memory, > > then write it out too. I suspect this would be a win for > > ATA but a loss for SCSI. Not sure. > > Please don't do this, it is bug. > > If user did not ask writing somewhere, DO NOT WRITE THERE! If power > fails in the middle of the sector... Or if that is flashcard....
or raid or nbd...
> Just don't do this.
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