From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id n7SGviAh166050 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:57:59 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 40A981579760 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:58:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [18.85.46.34]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id xpAiBGyMBvySr7be for ; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:58:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:55:26 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6.30.4 loop(..?) regression (& with/2.6.31-rc6) Message-ID: <20090828165526.GA6133@infradead.org> References: <20090822205502.GA18904@infradead.org> <20090823224504.GA19942@infradead.org> <20090826180234.GC14019@infradead.org> <20090826212732.GA18124@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Justin Piszcz Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Nikanth Karthikesan , Jens Axboe , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 07:23:11AM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: > If both '-o nobarrier' and the patch solves the issue, what is the next > action that should be taken? Update the documentation to always use > -o nobarrier for cryptoloop? Or get the patch reverted in mainline? We'll have to figure out why it causes those problems and how fix them. -o nobarrier on a loop device is extremly unsafe as you will possible lose large amounts of log updates in case of a crash. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs