On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 04:08:52PM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > possible, because the merge function must be obeyed. The merge function is only a hint, albeit a strong hint - not a hard requirement. (Otherwise we're back to the ideas of block-layer reservations/cancellations and limitations on suspend which we didn't want to implement.) If you are still seeing a problem with md in this respect, please could you post the details for us to discuss? Alasdair -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel