Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:15:26 +0100 | From | Matthias Andree <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] barrier patch set |
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On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Helge Hafting wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 01:02:39AM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > [...] > > There were reports that on some drives you can't disable write cache > > and even (?) that some drives lie (WC still enabled but marked as disabled). > > > I think the simple solution of not supporting data integrity properly > on such a broken disk is perfectly ok.
At least Linux should warn the user that his data is heading for doom.
-- Matthias Andree
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