[Gllug] RAID on laptop or xfs?

[Nix]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Russell Howe uttered the following:
> Even worse, some drives *IGNORE* a request to disable write caching! In
> this case, there isn't a whole lot the filesystem can do other than take
> a guess at the state of the drive (although I think I read something on
> the linux-xfs list talking about cache barriers or something...).

A lost cause, if you ask me: if a drive's so loony nonstandard as to
ignore cache disable requests, why on earth would it respect the (much
less frequently implemented) cache barrier ops?

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