On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 11:30:32AM +1000, Neil Brown wrote:
> 1/ A BIO_RW_BARRIER request should never fail with -EOPNOTSUP.
The device-mapper position has always been that we require
> a zero-length BIO_RW_BARRIER
(i.e. containing no data to read or write - or emulated, possibly
device-specific)
before we can provide full barrier support.
(Consider multiple active paths - each must see barrier.)
Until every device supports barriers -EOPNOTSUP support is required.
(Consider reconfiguration of stacks of devices - barrier support is a
dynamic block device property that can switch between available and
unavailable at any time.)
Alasdair
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