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Ext3 and write caching by drives are the data killers...

Ext3 and write caching by drives are the data killers...

Posted Sep 3, 2009 7:18 UTC (Thu) by job (guest, #670)
In reply to: Ext3 and write caching by drives are the data killers... by dododge
Parent article: Ext3 and RAID: silent data killers?

According to previous comments at LWN barriers should be working through LVM with 2.6.30.


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LVM barriers

Posted Sep 3, 2009 10:23 UTC (Thu) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link]

There are some limitations on this - LVM barriers will only work with a linear target, apparently: http://lwn.net/Articles/326597/

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