IDE write ordering ?

[Alan Cox]

On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:38:03PM +0100, David Balazic wrote:
> So to have a j-fs to really be fsck safe, I have to turn off write caching ?

If you want to be really paranoid then yes for current ATA. The next generation
specification allows certain I/O to bypass the caches so at that point it
can become nicer

The same applies for some databases if you are paranoid too