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From: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] dm-cache not writing out cache metadata at reboot?
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 11:05:21 +0100
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On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 06:05:26PM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> I'll defer to Joe on this but I think sync_metadata() is pretty heavy to
> be doing every 'dmsetup info'.  BTW, with just dm_cache_commit() the
> superblock fields aren't stale; only the on-disk hints are.

Agreed, the hints are v. expensive to write.