On Fri, Aug 08 2008, Jens Axboe wrote: > Until we have overlap detection, I think we should make the discard > request a explicit barrier. Otherwise we could have problems with a > discard being passed by a write request and such. But that wreaks havoc with merging, since a barrier a) must be inserted at the back of the queue, and b) always has merging disabled -- Jens Axboe -- 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