On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 02:07:39AM +0100, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 10:46:04AM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > > If a filesystem cares, it could 'ask' as suggested above. > > What would be a good interface for asking? > > XFS already tests: > bd_disk->queue->ordered == QUEUE_ORDERED_NONE The side effects of removing that check is what started this whole discussion. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner Principal Engineer SGI Australian Software Group - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html