On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 03:56:54PM +0200, Johannes Bauer wrote: > So I seem to have a very basic misunderstanding of what the cleaner > policy/dirty pages mean. Is there a way to force the cache to flush > entirely? Apparently, "dmsetup wait" and/or "sync" don't do the job. Your understanding is correct. There is a tool in the latest thinp tools release called cache_writeback that does offline decommissioning of a cache. I'll try and reproduce your scenario and get back to you. - Joe -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel