Hello, On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:23:29PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > As part of migrating the FLUSH/FUA knob to the block layer, remove the support > code for the barrier-related mount options and remove the conditionals around > flushes in favor of always issuing the flush. The block layer will handle > gracefully the situation where a FLUSH or FUA request is issued to a device > that doesn't support it. Modify the option parsing code to print a warning if > someone tries to use the old mount option. > > Note: The nobarrier bit in the default mount flags is now useless. The option is something which users are already quite familiar with. I think we'll just have to carry this around. What we can do, tho, is moving the actual control mechanism to block layer - ie. blkdev_skip_flush() or something like that which ignores flush requests for the current exclusive opener. Thanks. -- tejun -- 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
