If the user tries to enable write flushes with "barrier=1" and the underlying block device does not support flushes, print a message and set barrier=0. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext3/super.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext3/super.c b/fs/ext3/super.c index d15209e..75ca265 100644 --- a/fs/ext3/super.c +++ b/fs/ext3/super.c @@ -1691,6 +1691,13 @@ static int ext3_fill_super (struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent) NULL, 0)) goto failed_mount; + /* Catch barrier=1 and no flush support */ + if (test_opt(sb, BARRIER) && + !(sb->s_bdev->bd_disk->queue->flush_flags & REQ_FLUSH)) { + ext3_msg(sb, KERN_WARNING, "flush not supported; disabling."); + clear_opt(sbi->s_mount_opt, BARRIER); + } + sb->s_flags = (sb->s_flags & ~MS_POSIXACL) | (test_opt(sb, POSIX_ACL) ? MS_POSIXACL : 0); @@ -2574,6 +2581,13 @@ static int ext3_remount (struct super_block * sb, int * flags, char * data) goto restore_opts; } + /* Catch barrier=1 and no flush support */ + if (test_opt(sb, BARRIER) && + !(sb->s_bdev->bd_disk->queue->flush_flags & REQ_FLUSH)) { + ext3_msg(sb, KERN_WARNING, "flush not supported; disabling."); + clear_opt(sbi->s_mount_opt, BARRIER); + } + if (test_opt(sb, ABORT)) ext3_abort(sb, __func__, "Abort forced by user"); -- 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