Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 21:02:20 -0500 From: Greg Lehey <grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@FreeBSD.ORG>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_shutdown.c Message-ID: <19991207210220.00705@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <199912071505.IAA00369@caspian.plutotech.com>; from Justin T. Gibbs on Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 08:05:24AM -0700 References: <199912070829.AAA75674@apollo.backplane.com> <199912071505.IAA00369@caspian.plutotech.com>
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On Tuesday, 7 December 1999 at 8:05:24 -0700, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: >> :This is basically what we decided was needed in discussion with Kirk to >> :make Soft Updates safe. (The whole point). >> : >> :Julian >> >> The disk can lie about whether it has written data to the disk without >> messing softupdates up, but it cannot reorder writes that the system has >> told it must be ordered. SCSI has a tag to guarentee ordering (or not), >> but I don't know if IDE has the same sort of feature. >> >> -Matt > > My understanding is that the ordered tag may go away in the near SCSI > future. I think this is absurd personally, but the makers of cheap > disks are making a big push for this. Given its weaknesses, I'm not too concerned. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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