From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "John Stoffel" Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 00/13] MD: a caching layer for raid5/6 Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 11:07:34 -0400 Message-ID: <21927.51382.8600.700720@quad.stoffel.home> References: <20150710040847.GA1408097@devbig257.prn2.facebook.com> <20150710143656.4ee7e647@noble> <20150715004455.GA1024035@devbig257.prn2.facebook.com> <20150715121234.22803890@noble> <20150715031615.GA1292235@devbig257.prn2.facebook.com> <20150715140641.3c61cf78@noble> <20150715194927.GA3502691@devbig257.prn2.facebook.com> <20150716091653.7b970b32@noble> <20150716000739.GA4041321@devbig257.prn2.facebook.com> <20150716112217.3e2e685f@noble> <20150716041305.GA283306@devbig257.prn2.facebook.com> <20150716160711.08c37fc1@noble> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20150716160711.08c37fc1@noble> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: NeilBrown Cc: Shaohua Li , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, songliubraving@fb.com, hch@infradead.org, dan.j.williams@intel.com, Kernel-team@fb.com List-Id: linux-raid.ids So.... how will wrapping of sequence numbers be handled in the cache metadata on disk? They can't grow for ever... John