From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261555AbTJ0Koy (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2003 05:44:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261563AbTJ0Koy (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2003 05:44:54 -0500 Received: from gate.in-addr.de ([212.8.193.158]:41943 "EHLO mx.in-addr.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261555AbTJ0Kox (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2003 05:44:53 -0500 Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 11:29:19 +0100 From: Lars Marowsky-Bree To: Daniel Phillips , Nick Piggin Cc: Jens Axboe , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] ide write barrier support Message-ID: <20031027102919.GC13640@marowsky-bree.de> References: <20031013140858.GU1107@suse.de> <200310231920.39888.phillips@arcor.de> <3F986276.4010409@cyberone.com.au> <200310262206.53904.phillips@arcor.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200310262206.53904.phillips@arcor.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Ctuhulu: HASTUR Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2003-10-26T23:06:53, Daniel Phillips said: > Not entirely within the multipath virtual device, that's the problem. > If it could stay somehow all within one device driver then ok, but > since we want to build this modularly, as a device mapper target, > there are API issues. Are you seeing problems with the write-ordering properties of multipathing? If so, what is the issue with handling them in the DM target once? Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Brée -- High Availability & Clustering \ ever tried. ever failed. no matter. SUSE Labs | try again. fail again. fail better. Research & Development, SUSE LINUX AG \ -- Samuel Beckett