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From: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>
To: Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsduifb@gmx.de>
Cc: device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: dm-cache coherence issue
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 12:33:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170626113341.GA20683@nim> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1ca408b4-0df2-d495-b899-28bded8217fa@gmx.de>

On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 03:56:54PM +0200, Johannes Bauer wrote:
> So I seem to have a very basic misunderstanding of what the cleaner
> policy/dirty pages mean. Is there a way to force the cache to flush
> entirely? Apparently, "dmsetup wait" and/or "sync" don't do the job.

Your understanding is correct.  There is a tool in the latest thinp
tools release called cache_writeback that does offline decommissioning
of a cache.

I'll try and reproduce your scenario and get back to you.

- Joe

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-06-26 11:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-24 13:56 dm-cache coherence issue Johannes Bauer
2017-06-24 18:21 ` Johannes Bauer
2017-06-26 11:33 ` Joe Thornber [this message]
2017-06-26 15:58   ` Joe Thornber
2017-06-26 19:08     ` Johannes Bauer
2017-06-26 19:56       ` Mike Snitzer
2017-06-26 20:36         ` Johannes Bauer
2017-06-26 21:34           ` Mike Snitzer
2017-06-27  9:44           ` Joe Thornber

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