Re: [dm-devel] dm-cache not writing out cache metadata at reboot?

[Joe Thornber]

On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 06:05:26PM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> I'll defer to Joe on this but I think sync_metadata() is pretty heavy to
> be doing every 'dmsetup info'.  BTW, with just dm_cache_commit() the
> superblock fields aren't stale; only the on-disk hints are.

Agreed, the hints are v. expensive to write.

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