Re: [PATCH 2/2] xfs: deprecate barrier/nobarrier mount option

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 10:54:39AM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Thu 01-12-16 09:54:44, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > We always perform integrity operations now, so these mount options
> > don't do anything. Deprecate them and mark them for removal in
> > in a year.
> > 
> > Signed-Off-By: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> We use 'nobarrier' mount option to simulate disks with battery-backed
> caches in some of our IO performance testing. I don't say we cannot live
> with this mount option but it was convenient...

FYI, for scsi (and thus ATA as well) you can override the cache type
using the cache_type sysfs file, which is a much better interface for
this than anything file system related.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html



[Index of Archives]     [XFS Filesystem Development (older mail)]     [Linux Filesystem Development]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite Trails]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux SCSI]


  Powered by Linux