Re: xfs on notebooks (noflushd etc.)

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 18:51 15-7-2001 +0200, thomas graichen wrote:
> just out of curiousity: how does xfs interact with things like
> noflushd which reduce the disk flushing for more effective ide
> poweroff possibilities ... is the flushing below the fs layer
> so that it should all work transparently or may it result in
> problems with xfs (or journaling fs in general)?

If your journal does not get out to disk and the data does not get out to 
disk and the fs is not touched it would remain consistent.

If the journal gets written and the data does not or vice versa you can 
probably imagine what happens.

The question is if both the journal and data end up in the same layer and 
thus get written at the same time. I think that journal does not travel to 
disk in the same path that the data does.
However this is a bit og guessing, let the brighter people answer this one.

Cheers

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Seth
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it was written and another for which it wasn't
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