linux-ext4 - Re: Fwd: barriers off by default?

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Date:	Mon, 12 May 2008 14:00:18 -0500
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	Eric A <erpo41@...il.com>
CC:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: barriers off by default?

Eric A wrote:
>  Documentation/block/barrier.txt
> 
>  There's a section that starts:
> 
>  "* Error handling.  Currently, block layer will report error to upper
>  layer if any of requests in an ordered sequence fails.  Unfortunately,
>  this doesn't seem to be enough. "

And ends:

"As the probability of this happening is very low and the drive should
be faulty, implementing the fix is probably an overkill.  But, still,
it's there."

I'm not sure it's an argument for disabling barriers in general.   :)

-Eric

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