Re: [RFD] BIO_RW_BARRIER - what it means for devices, filesystems, and dm/md.

On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 02:48:45PM +1000, Timothy Shimmin wrote:
> I'm taking it that the FUA write will just guarantee that that
> particular write has made it to disk on i/o completion
> (and no write cache flush is done).

Correct.  It only applies to that one write command.

jeremy
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References:
- [RFD] BIO_RW_BARRIER - what it means for devices, filesystems, and dm/md.
  - From: Neil Brown <[email protected]>
- Re: [RFD] BIO_RW_BARRIER - what it means for devices, filesystems, and dm/md.
  - From: Neil Brown <[email protected]>
- Re: [RFD] BIO_RW_BARRIER - what it means for devices, filesystems, and dm/md.
  - From: David Chinner <[email protected]>
- Re: [RFD] BIO_RW_BARRIER - what it means for devices, filesystems, and dm/md.
  - From: Timothy Shimmin <[email protected]>

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