linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: Set barrier=0 when block device does not advertise flush support

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Message-ID: <20101203070950.GA19071@infradead.org>
Date:	Fri, 3 Dec 2010 02:09:50 -0500
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Set barrier=0 when block device does not advertise
 flush support

On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 04:16:59PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> If the user tries to enable write flushes with "barrier=1" and the underlying
> block device does not support flushes, print a message and set barrier=0.

That doesn't make any sense at all with the ne wFLUSH+FUA code, which is
designed to make the cache flushing entirely transparanent.  Basically
with the new code the barrier option should become a no-op and always
enabled.

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