Re: [GIT PULL] convert DRBD to REQ_FLUSH/FUA

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sat Oct 23 2010 - 07:22:31 EST


On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 01:18:33PM +0200, Philipp Reisner wrote:
> Hi Jens,
>
> Christoph Hellwig pointed out that drbd is the only driver
> that still uses/supports barriers instead of FUE in linux-next.
>
> I revitalized three patches that remove the barrier bits from DRBD...

This looks good. You probably don't actually need the MD_NO_FUA flag -
REQ_FUA writes will always work - they just ignored by drivers not
implementing cache control.

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