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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>, Steven Ellis <steven@openmedia.co.nz>,
	Linux RAID <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Any benefity to write intent bitmaps on Raid1
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 09:08:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49E09657.4020809@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877i1rpogf.fsf@frosties.localdomain>

Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> writes:
>   
>
>> You could make it work, but there would be a performance hit.
>>
>> Now look at your cases where a filesystem doesn't work well:
>>  1/ Swap.  That is a non-issue.  After a crash, the contents of swap
>>     are irrelevant.  Without a crash, the races you refer to are
>>     irrelevant.
>>     
>
> What about suspend to swap?
>   

suspend is a "without a crash" case, I wouldn't want to restore from 
swap if the system failed to complete a clean shutdown.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO TMR Associates, Inc

"You are disgraced professional losers. And by the way, give us our money back."
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-11 13:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-09  0:24 Any benefity to write intent bitmaps on Raid1 Steven Ellis
2009-04-09  1:30 ` Bryan Mesich
2009-04-09  5:59 ` Neil Brown
2009-04-09  6:26   ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-04-10  9:04     ` Neil Brown
2009-04-11  2:56       ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-04-11  5:35         ` Neil Brown
2009-04-11  8:46           ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-04-11 13:08             ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2009-04-09 22:51   ` Bill Davidsen
2009-04-10  9:10     ` Neil Brown

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