Hello all,
in open-iscsi, when network connectivity is lost, scsi commands that
were in-flight at the moment of disconnection are failed to the SCSI layer.
These get resubmitted up to 5 times by the SCSI layer (or so is written
in the open-iscsi docs) and after that they are held in the queue
(device "blocked") until the network connection is restored.
Now the question is: when SCSI resubmits commands to a device, I suppose
they go to the end of the queue for the device, and not at the head like
they were. Am I right?
How do filesystems, and in particular ext4, react to that?
I suppose the ordering goes awry, barriers cannot succeed in this way,
especially if they were submitted as real SCSI barriers (i.e. without
using flush + command + flush workaround)
Thank you
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