On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 02:31:21PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote: > David Chinner wrote: > >That sounds like a good idea - we can leave the existing > >WRITE_BARRIER behaviour unchanged and introduce a new WRITE_ORDERED > >behaviour that only guarantees ordering. The filesystem can then > >choose which to use where appropriate.... > > So what if you want a synchronous write, but DON'T care about the order? submit_bio(WRITE_SYNC, bio); Already there, already used by XFS, JFS and direct I/O. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner Principal Engineer SGI Australian Software Group -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
