On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Christoph Hellwig<hch@xxxxxx> wrote: > - barrier requests and cache flushes are supported by all local > disk filesystem in popular use (btrfs, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, XFS). > However unlike the other filesystems ext3 does _NOT_ enable barriers > and cache flush requests by default. what about LVM? iv'e read somewhere that it used to just eat barriers used by XFS, making it less safe than simple partitions. -- Javier -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html