Hello, I recently created a raid1 md volume using two Intel DC P3700 NVMe devices. I noticed that although both NVMe devices report not needing cache flushes (/sys/block/nvme*/queue/write_cache contains "write through"), the md volume created by linking them reports the opposite: /sys/block/md1/queue/write_cache contains "write back". I'm wondering if this is by design or simply a bug. My ultimate goal is to use this device to externally place the journal of an ext4 filesystem sitting on another big, slow, md device. AIUI, unless md itself requires cache flushes for it own ends, I'll be able to mount this filesystem with write barriers disabled and safely gain a significant performance improvement in write speeds. Thanks, -- Jerome
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