Re: write barrier over device mapper supported or not?

[Martin Steigerwald <Martin@Lichtvoll.de>]

Am Mittwoch 12 Dezember 2007 schrieb Eric Sandeen:
> Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > Are write barriers over device mapper supported or not?
>
> Nope.
>
> see dm_request():
>
>         /*
>          * There is no use in forwarding any barrier request since we
> can't * guarantee it is (or can be) handled by the targets correctly.
> */
>         if (unlikely(bio_barrier(bio))) {
>                 bio_endio(bio, -EOPNOTSUPP);
>                 return 0;
>         }

Thanks for your definitive answer.

What does that mean? What is the target in that case? If it is the libata 
PATA internal notebook drive it actually should support barriers and then 
I actually would like device mapper to support them too. Or is LVM2 the 
target and device mapper can't tell that LVM2 supports it?

I ask myself the question why write barrier if half the kernel does not 
handle it correctly and I am limited to plain partitions if I want to use 
it? Well I think I will just file a bug report at kernel.bugzilla.org 
about it.

Ciao,
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