On Fri 11-04-14 00:45:22, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 06:52:42AM +0200, Fabian Frederick wrote: > > Currently, there's no generic HW flush management support in kernel. > > Only 7 filesystems have their own way to manage the barrier flag. > > > > This patch adds MS_BARRIER in sb_flags and conditionnaly issues the flush > > in generic_file_fsync. > > Please don't add a binary mount option for something thast already is a > text option in many filesystems. We can actually enable/disable cache > flushes at the block device level, so I think this can be > unconditional. How can those be disabled? I didn't find that by a quick look through /sys and flush code in kernel... Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR -- 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
