On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 14:13:14 -0800 "Patrick J. LoPresti" <lopresti@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks, Neil. Actually, I think I have one more question... (Well, > one question with many faces.) > > Is the stripe cache write-back, or write-through? If the latter, when > does it get flushed to disk, exactly? > Write-through. However I am tempted to make it write-back as filesystems now submit 'flush' requests which can be used to flush the cache. I wonder if you would be able to notice any performance difference... NeilBrown -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html