On 02/23/2011 06:01 PM, James Ralston wrote: > On 2011-02-23 at 13:41-05 Peter Jones<pjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> dm-crypt still just throws REQ_FLUSH away instead of figuring out >> the block remaps involved and issuing the right bios. Of course, >> this is a problem with dm-crypt and _any_ filesystem. > > Are you sure that's still the case? Well, when I said "So, don't hold me to this, but it looks as if..." in the sentence before the one you quoted, I was attempting to imply that I was not, in fact, sure, and had only done the most trivial read of the code in question. > Because this patchset appears to add REQ_FLUSH support to dm: > > http://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2010-August/msg00303.html > > ...and that patchset is included in 2.6.38-rc6. The second patch in that patchset is the one I referenced in the email you're replying to. But I guess I misread it and it does seem to say it fixes dm-crypt as well. -- Peter The Shuttle is now going five times the sound of speed. -- Dan Rather, first landing of Columbia -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
