IDE write ordering ?

[Alan Cox]

On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:49:50PM +0100, David Balazic wrote:
> Would fsck ( or maybe some other tool? ) detect if this problem had happened
> ?
> ( that is , consistency problems due to re-ordered writes around the moment
> of failure, like
> power-outage )

For metadata yes. For data it may not be able to, but most people only
journal metadata anyway because transaction guarantees are rarely at
the per file granularity