On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 09:26:41AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> >
> > Didn't ext4 have some new checksum trick to avoid them?
>
> I didn't think checksumming avoided barriers completely. Just the barrier
> before the commit block, not the barrier after.
Funny thing, I was looking in this over the weekend. It currently
avoids barriers entirely if journal_async_commit is enabled (which is
not the default); if enabled, it effectively forces barrier=0. This
is IMHO a bug.
I'm working on a patch where "barrier=1" will use a barrier before and
after, and "barrier=1,journal_async_commit" will use a barrier after.
- Ted
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