Re: IDE write cache and journaling file systems

[Tony Gale <gale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 17:17, Jim Buzbee wrote:
> Steve Lord wrote:
> 
> > > ? Both the SuSE kernel has the infrastructure, and the 2.5 kernels so as
> > > well.
> > 
> > Unless I am mistaken, Jim is tied down to a fairly old kernel.
> 
> Yep, we're on 2.4.8 with the current box under development.
> 
> Jim
> 

Have you thought about using ext3 in data=journal mode instead?

Also make sure your disk honours the ATA write cache flush command, and
that it doesn't throw away the cache contents on reboot/suspend.

-tony