gjournal and Softupdates

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 12:04:01PM +0200, Christian Laursen wrote:
> Ivan Voras <ivoras at fer.hr> writes:
> 
> > - todays desktop drives can lie about writing data. SoftUpdates relies
> > on some assumptions about when the data is physically written to
> > media, and those are not always valid today
> 
> I think journaling relies on the same assumptions.

Not gjournal, because it uses BIO_FLUSH I/O requests which flushes disk
write cache when needed.

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