On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. :) I agree; it's just something that's been bugging me since I started searching for a solution for zfs-fuse. Maybe performance is the reason? Flushing the write cache is kind of slow. 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
