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From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 12:04:01PM +0200, Christian Laursen wrote:
> Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> writes:
>=20
> > - 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
>=20
> 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.

--=20
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