On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 02:01:10PM +0900, Kiyoshi Ueda wrote: > o To keep the old semantics, we need to distinguish which I/Os were > queued before/after the suspend invocation. > So a special barrier-like request called 'suspend marker' was > introduced. This is the key to the simplification - when dm devices can support flushing properly (using this barrier support), there is no need for an additional implementation of 'flush' to be embedded within any internal suspend logic. Alasdair -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel