Whoops. Forgot to send this to the list. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Eric A <erpo41@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, May 12, 2008 at 12:50 PM Subject: Re: barriers off by default? To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > From reading the documentation, I was under the impression that write > > barriers don't always do what they're supposed to do. > > Which documentation? > Documentation/block/barrier.txt There's a section that starts: "* Error handling. Currently, block layer will report error to upper layer if any of requests in an ordered sequence fails. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to be enough. " Cheers, Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
