Ric Wheeler wrote: > The hard thing is to figure out how to test this kind of scenario > without dropping power. Apart from using virtual machines, you mean? > To expose the failure mode, it might be > sufficient to drop power to a drive with smartctl (or, if you have hot > swap bays, just pull them). I wonder, does sending any kind of reset commands to drives cause them to discard their write cache? If the hot swap power switch is accessible from software, that would be a nice trick :-) -- Jamie -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
