How to know whether disks handle flush requests correctly

2011-05-06 Thread Paul Schroeder
The btrfs wiki Main Page warns that it is currently possible to corrupt a filesystem irrecoverably if your machine crashes or loses power on disks that don't handle flush requests correctly. How do you know if this applies to your drives? Is there a way to test it, or a model list, or are newer

Re: How to know whether disks handle flush requests correctly

2011-05-06 Thread Josef Bacik
On 05/06/2011 05:13 AM, Paul Schroeder wrote: The btrfs wiki Main Page warns that it is currently possible to corrupt a filesystem irrecoverably if your machine crashes or loses power on disks that don't handle flush requests correctly. How do you know if this applies to your drives? Is there a

Re: How to know whether disks handle flush requests correctly

2011-05-06 Thread Chris Mason
Excerpts from Josef Bacik's message of 2011-05-06 09:10:23 -0400: On 05/06/2011 05:13 AM, Paul Schroeder wrote: The btrfs wiki Main Page warns that it is currently possible to corrupt a filesystem irrecoverably if your machine crashes or loses power on disks that don't handle flush requests