On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 09:33:17AM +0100, David Balazic wrote:
But isn't the default on the majority of ATA drives to have write cache enabled ?
Yes.
is very informative. So my question is , how can one test if the journalled FS on his disk is actually working as it should or is it just waste of time and giving a false sense of
safety
Its extremely hard to do because you need fairly complex tools to ensure outstanding I/O during a sudden power off and out of order drive writeback etc
Is write caching turned of in case of journalled filesystems ? Or is that left as an exercise to the reader ?
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