Re: [PATCH] ext4: Set barrier=0 when block device does not advertiseflush support

[Christoph Hellwig]

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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