On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:54:30AM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote: > This is a bit surprising tho. Were we always like this? We never had > even stupid "flush down everything and sync"? Or is this something we > broke while morphing flush implementation several times in the past > years? It's something that never worked in Linux. Until XFS went ahead and enabled barriers by default no filesystem in Linux ever flushed the volatile cache by default, and most couldn't (and still can't) even if you asked them to. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
