On Thu, Jun 30 2005, Edwards, Scott (GE Healthcare) wrote: > Hello, > > Can anyone tell me if the write cache on SATA drives are handled such > that journaling file systems work correctly? Back in the 2.6.5 - > 2.6.7 time frame I had to disable the write cache to get ext3 to not > trash things when the power was lost. With kernel 2.6.10 would I > still need to disable the write cache? With 2.6.12.x it should work, if you use ext3 or reiser and the appropriate mount options (-o barrier=1 for ext3, barrier=flush for reiserfs). 2.6.11 and earlier does not work on SATA. -- Jens Axboe - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
