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Date:   Fri, 28 Jun 2019 07:32:16 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To:     OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] fat: Add nobarrier to workaround the strange behavior of
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On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 11:18:19PM +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> To workaround those devices and provide flexibility, this adds
> "barrier"/"nobarrier" mount options to fat driver.

We have deprecated these rather misnamed options, and now instead allow
tweaking the 'cache_type' attribute on the SCSI device.

That being said if the device behave this buggy you should also report
it to to the usb-storage and scsi maintainers so that we can add a
quirk for it.