Re: [PATCHSET block#for-2.6.36-post] block: replace barrier withsequenced flush

[Alan Cox]

> In SCSI there are conditions when a command, including FLUSH 
> (SYNC_CACHE), failed which don't imply lost data. For them the caller 
> expected to retry the failed command. Most common cases are Unit 
> Attentions and TASK QUEUE FULL status.

ATA expects the command to be retried as well because a failed flush
indicates the specific sector is lost (unless the host still has a copy
of course - which is *very* likely although we don't use it) but the rest
of the flush transaction can be retried to continue to flush sectors
beyond the failed one.

Alan
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