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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: "Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>
Cc: Dongjun Shin <djshin90@gmail.com>, Greg Banks <gnb@sgi.com>,
	Linux Filesystem Mailing List <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Chinner <dgc@melbourne.sgi.com>,
	Donald Douwsma <donaldd@melbourne.sgi.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Roger Strassburg <rls@sgi.com>, Mark Goodwin <markgw@sgi.com>,
	Brett Jon Grandbois <brettg@melbourne.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Proposal to improve filesystem/block snapshot interaction
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:37:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200710301737.29007.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071030153707.GC13455@lazybastard.org>

On Tuesday 30 October 2007, Jörn Engel wrote:
> On Tue, 30 October 2007 23:19:48 +0900, Dongjun Shin wrote:
> > On 10/30/07, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > Not sure. Why shouldn't you be able to reorder the hints provided that
> > > they don't overlap with read/write bios for the same block?
> > 
> > You're right. The bios can be reordered if they don't overlap with hint.
> 
> I would keep things simpler.  Bios can be reordered, full stop.  If an
> erase and a write overlap, the caller (filesystem?) has to add a
> barrier.

I thought bios were already ordered if they affect the same blocks.
Either way, I agree that an erase should not be treated special on
the bio layer, its ordering should be handled the same way we do it
for writes.

	Arnd <><
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-30 16:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20070927063113.GD2989@sgi.com>
2007-10-30  1:04 ` Proposal to improve filesystem/block snapshot interaction Greg Banks
2007-10-30  1:11   ` Greg Banks
2007-10-30  4:16   ` Neil Brown
2007-10-30  5:12     ` Greg Banks
2007-10-30  7:43       ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-11-20 23:43       ` Roger Strassburg
2007-10-30 23:56     ` David Chinner
2007-10-31  4:01       ` Greg Banks
2007-10-31  7:04         ` David Chinner
2007-10-30  9:35   ` Dongjun Shin
2007-10-30 10:15     ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-10-30 10:49       ` Dongjun Shin
2007-10-30 12:38         ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-10-30 14:19           ` Dongjun Shin
2007-10-30 15:37             ` Jörn Engel
2007-10-30 16:37               ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2007-10-30 23:19                 ` Kyungmin Park
2007-10-30 23:42       ` Kyungmin Park
2007-10-30 14:06     ` Jörn Engel
2007-10-31  3:44     ` Greg Banks

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