Re: RAID controller safety

[Bernd Eckenfels]

In article <20051230185840.52264.qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote:
> So all writes would be treated as syncronous in the write-through case (no battery), making fsync
> a no-op?

The device cache is IMHO not related to the higher level buffer cache. So
fsync flushes the buffers and the write-through ensures the controller may
not delay it in controller ram.

Gruss
Bernd
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