On Tuesday 30 October 2007, Dongjun Shin wrote: > Anyway, BIO_HINT_RELEASE could destroy the content of the blocks > after being passed to the device. I think that other bio should not be > reordered accross that hint (just like barrier). Not sure. Why shouldn't you be able to reorder the hints provided that they don't overlap with read/write bios for the same block? Arnd <>< - 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