Gentoo Archives: gentoo-security

From: Toon Verstraelen <Toon.Verstraelen@×××××.be>
To: gentoo-security@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-security] broken pstree
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 10:15:23
Message-Id: 40BDA8A4.4080106@UGent.be
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-security] broken pstree by Marc Ballarin
1 Marc Ballarin wrote:
2 > It is important to note, that all journaling filesystems rely on data
3 > ordering. If you are using your hard-disk's write cache, things can break
4 > badly. This is probably the main reason for reiserfs' bad reputation.
5
6 Afaik most ide hard disks have write caching switched on for performance
7 reasons. (At least on my disk this is so. hdparm -i /dev/hda tells me.) Is their
8 a fast alternative for write caching on ide disks?
9
10 regards,
11 Toon
12
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-security] broken pstree Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-security] broken pstree Marc Ballarin <Ballarin.Marc@×××.de>