Re: [PATCH] ide write barriers

Marc-Christian Petersen (m.c.p@wolk-project.de)
Wed, 5 Feb 2003 16:28:48 +0100


On Wednesday 05 February 2003 16:18, Jens Axboe wrote:

Hi Jens,

> The attached patch implements write barrier operations in the block
> layer and for IDE, specifically. The goal is to make the use of write
> back cache enabled ide drives safe with journalled file systems.
> Patch is against 2.4.21-pre4-bk as of today, and includes a small patch
> to enable it on ext3. Chris has a patch for reiserfs as well.
Could you also please cook up one for 2.4.20? :) Thank you.

ciao, Marc
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/