From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264108AbUE2Ial (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 May 2004 04:30:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264076AbUE2Iai (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 May 2004 04:30:38 -0400 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:5856 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264108AbUE2IaU (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 May 2004 04:30:20 -0400 Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 10:30:14 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: Ed Tomlinson Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Gunther Persoons Subject: Re: [2.6.7-rc1-mm1] cant mount reiserfs using -o barrier=flush Message-ID: <20040529083013.GS20657@suse.de> References: <1085689455.7831.8.camel@localhost> <40B72886.3000507@spymac.com> <20040528121822.GH20657@suse.de> <200405281739.53892.edt@aei.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200405281739.53892.edt@aei.ca> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 28 2004, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > On May 28, 2004 08:18 am, Jens Axboe wrote: > > error=0x04 is an aborted command, meaning it's not supported. So > > ide-disk dumps that message to the log (barrier support doesn't work) > > and turns it off. This is expected behaviour if your drive doesn't > > support cache flushing. > > Then I would expect to see the message _once_. In my case I have 8 > entries with these errors in my logs (then I rebooted). Once would not > be bad but 8 indicates to me that something is not respecting the flag > (or its being reset). > It's possible to get more than 1, if you get a bunch of barriers queued before the flag has a chance to catch them at submission. If you could send me a log of what happens (what you did and the kernel messages), I can take a look. -- Jens Axboe