From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: Eric A <erpo41@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: barriers off by default?
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 14:00:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <482893C2.7000709@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <72c5d9a0805121151m2d838f3cxe61368b928dc5db2@mail.gmail.com>
Eric A wrote:
> Documentation/block/barrier.txt
>
> There's a section that starts:
>
> "* Error handling. Currently, block layer will report error to upper
> layer if any of requests in an ordered sequence fails. Unfortunately,
> this doesn't seem to be enough. "
And ends:
"As the probability of this happening is very low and the drive should
be faulty, implementing the fix is probably an overkill. But, still,
it's there."
I'm not sure it's an argument for disabling barriers in general. :)
-Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-12 19:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-12 15:56 barriers off by default? Eric Sandeen
2008-05-12 17:30 ` Eric A
2008-05-12 17:53 ` Eric Sandeen
[not found] ` <72c5d9a0805121150j58482bc6qd57a87089ce4414e@mail.gmail.com>
2008-05-12 18:51 ` Fwd: " Eric A
2008-05-12 19:00 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2008-05-12 19:11 ` Eric A
2008-05-12 19:15 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-05-15 14:43 ` Jan Kara
2008-05-15 16:00 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-05-15 16:21 ` Andreas Dilger
2008-05-15 18:34 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-05-15 20:44 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-05-16 0:21 ` Jan Kara
2008-05-16 0:58 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-05-17 17:38 ` Theodore Tso
2008-05-17 19:02 ` Eric Sandeen
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