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Date:      Tue, 07 Dec 1999 08:05:24 -0700
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@FreeBSD.org>
To:        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:  <199912071505.IAA00369@caspian.plutotech.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Dec 1999 00:29:12 PST." <199912070829.AAA75674@apollo.backplane.com> 

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>: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.

--
Justin




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