Eric A wrote: > 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. " And ends: "As the probability of this happening is very low and the drive should be faulty, implementing the fix is probably an overkill. But, still, it's there." I'm not sure it's an argument for disabling barriers in general. :) -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