Re: [dm-devel] Re: [RFD] BIO_RW_BARRIER - what it means for devices, filesystems, and dm/md.

From: Alasdair G Kergon
Date: Wed May 30 2007 - 06:43:50 EST


On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 11:12:37AM +0200, Stefan Bader wrote:
> it might be better to indicate -EOPNOTSUPP right from
> device-mapper.

Indeed we should. For support, on receipt of a barrier, dm core should
send a zero-length barrier to all active underlying paths, and delay
mapping any further I/O.

Alasdair
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