linux-kernel - Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ramback: faster than a speeding bullet

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Message-ID:  <m3lk4my75u.fsf@ursa.amorsen.dk>
Date:	Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:29:01 +0100
From:	Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet@...rsen.dk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject:  Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ramback: faster than a speeding bullet

Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

> On the contrary - the hard disk cache is managed by the barrier logic in
> the kernel, and the ordering even on failures is fairly predictable.

Doesn't that require explicitly setting barrier=1 for ext3? Are there
any distributions which set that by default?


/Benny


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