From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id q1T7ehWb257712 for ; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 01:40:43 -0600 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com [208.72.237.35]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id xT4Aeyj0Zh11iHlJ for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 23:40:40 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:40:40 +0000 From: Brian Candler Subject: Re: mount: Structure needs cleaning Message-ID: <20120229074040.GA4192@nsrc.org> References: <33393100.post@talk.nabble.com> <4F49B693.4080309@hardwarefreak.com> <33393429.post@talk.nabble.com> <20120227004902.GQ3592@dastard> <33397518.post@talk.nabble.com> <20120228014813.GU3592@dastard> <20120228091441.GA1562@nsrc.org> <20120229035044.GY3592@dastard> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120229035044.GY3592@dastard> 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: Dave Chinner Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 02:50:44PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > > > http://xfs.org/index.php/XFS_FAQ#Q._Which_settings_does_my_RAID_controller_need_.3F > > > > As a side question to this: if I am using Linux's md software RAID with an > > HBA, and XFS is using write barriers (as I believe it does by default), is > > it still necessary to disable write caching on the drives? > > No. The MD layers pass the correct flushes to the drives now. Thank you: that's very clear and very helpful. Regards, Brian. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs