From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>, Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>,
Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Out-of-order writing by disk drives
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:27:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1239737226.28321.22.camel@think.oraclecorp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090414185058.GZ14687@one.firstfloor.org>
On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 20:50 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:09:48PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> > Andi Kleen wrote:
> > []
> > >Where I see it as a problem is with virtualization; LVM seems to be the
> > >most sane way to manage file systems for lots of VMs and you likely
> > >want barriers there too.
> >
> > Virtualisation is the best fit for partitionable raid1 arrays.
> > It is, in fact, what we have here -- I tested LVM but rejected
> > it because of this very issue - it does not support barriers.
>
> It does now as of 2.6.29, as long as you only have a single
> underlying device and use dm linear.
Eric Sandeen noticed this is actually still broken:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/3/23/360
-chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-14 19:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-07 20:04 Out-of-order writing by disk drives Anton Ertl
2009-04-14 14:10 ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-14 16:33 ` Anton Ertl
2009-04-14 17:24 ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-14 17:40 ` Mark Lord
2009-04-14 17:48 ` Michael Tokarev
2009-04-14 17:54 ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-14 18:09 ` Michael Tokarev
2009-04-14 18:50 ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-14 19:27 ` Chris Mason [this message]
2009-04-15 12:46 ` Jens Axboe
2009-04-17 19:46 ` Folkert van Heusden
2009-04-17 20:29 ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-17 21:07 ` Folkert van Heusden
2009-04-18 9:06 ` Anton Ertl
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