Ann W. Harrison wrote:

> Interesting analysis of durability in Linux...
>
> http://lwn.net/Articles/270891/

Excellent thread. Thanks.

It looks like my problems with ReiserFS and power failures, weren't
actually problems in Reiser, but in Linux kernel and FB's forced writes
combined.

I wonder how does this relate to forced-writes fixes in FB2.1 RC1:

http://www.firebirdsql.org/rlsnotesh/rlsnotes210.html#rnfb210-global-fwrites

I'm CC-ing the devel list, so that we might get some definitive answers:

- Does forced writes really write the data to the disk (not the cache)?
- Which versions of kernel we need to run to have it working?

Thanks,

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Milan Babuskov
http://www.flamerobin.org