Subject: Re: File system performance on i386
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Christoph Hellwig <chhellwig@gmx.net>
List: tech-perform
Date: 02/25/2001 17:41:32
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 09:52:47PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 05:54:21PM +0100, wojtek@wojtek.from.pl wrote:
> > "almost guarantees". actually disk itself has write buffers and could
> > reorder writes. 
> 
> Not if the driver ask it to not do it.

There is still disksort/elevator ...
(You could probably turn it off also, nut it looks like noone actually does).

	Christoph

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Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.