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From: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>, Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bug in md write barrier support?
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 19:13:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040912171300.GA14369@bitwizard.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1094682098.12280.19.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 11:21:39PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> I2O defines cache flush very losely. It flushes the cache and returns
[...]
> write 1, 2, 3, 4 , 40, 41, flush cache, write 5, 6, 100

> it'll write 1,2,3,4,5,6, 40, 41, report flush cache complete. 

which, if 5,6 are the metadata updates beloging to logfile writes
40,41 and the system powers down between 5 and 41 spells trouble. 

	Roger. 

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-09-12 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-03 17:24 bug in md write barrier support? Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-04  0:56 ` Neil Brown
2004-09-04  8:21   ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-06  1:36     ` Neil Brown
2004-09-08  9:23       ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-08 13:35         ` Alan Cox
2004-09-08 15:46           ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-08 22:21             ` Alan Cox
2004-09-09  8:06               ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-09  8:22                 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-09  8:29                   ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-09 12:51                     ` Alan Cox
2004-09-09 14:34                       ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-12 17:13               ` Rogier Wolff [this message]

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