From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Kenny Simpson <theonetruekenny@yahoo.com>
Cc: "Salyzyn, Mark" <mark_salyzyn@adaptec.com>,
linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: RAID controller safety
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 16:02:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1136563355.30498.29.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060106151855.63846.qmail@web34102.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
On Gwe, 2006-01-06 at 07:18 -0800, Kenny Simpson wrote:
> Won't the i2o_block driver use i2o_block_device_flush to flush the devices' cache (by issuing a
> I2O_CMD_BLOCK_CFLUSH), or this this function used in some very different context?
I'm out of date. It was originally used on the last close of removable
media and to work around some promise bugs. Markus Lidel has indeed
added the relevant functions and hooks to let the block layer use it for
barriers
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-06 16:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-06 14:33 RAID controller safety Salyzyn, Mark
2006-01-06 14:46 ` Alan Cox
2006-01-06 15:18 ` Kenny Simpson
2006-01-06 16:02 ` Alan Cox [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-01-06 17:06 Salyzyn, Mark
2005-12-29 16:29 Kenny Simpson
2005-12-30 15:17 ` Alan Cox
2005-12-30 16:18 ` Kenny Simpson
2005-12-30 18:20 ` Alan Cox
2005-12-30 18:58 ` Kenny Simpson
2005-12-30 19:31 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2005-12-31 0:49 ` Alan Cox
2005-12-31 3:25 ` Kenny Simpson
2005-12-31 3:29 ` Kenny Simpson
2005-12-31 6:55 ` Kenny Simpson
2005-12-31 7:57 ` Kenny Simpson
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