Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Sep 15 2016 - 08:28:01 EST


On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 02:26:31PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> Yes. I think the kernel nbd driver should probably filter out FUA on
> READ. It has no meaning in the case of nbd, and whatever expectations
> the kernel may have cannot be provided for by nbd anyway.

The kernel never sets FUA on reads - I just pointed out that other
protocols have defined (although horrible) semantics for it.