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From: Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>
To: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Out-of-order writing by disk drives
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:46:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090417194646.GC10554@vanheusden.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49E4CA75.902@rtr.ca>

>> A full listing of what devices do and don't support barriers would
>> be likely very long. You would actually need to list down to hard disks.
>>
>> A common problem is barriers over LVM. Since 2.6.29 they work
>> with a single device (and if the underlying device supports it) with  
>> dm linear, but not in any other LVM setup.
> ..
>
> Does anyone else here find this rather peculiar?
> The folks who actually care about barriers the most
> (apart from kernel developers) are probably enterprise users.
> And who is most likely to be using RAID and LVM,
> where barriers generally don't work at all ?

What about iSCSI? Does it support barriers?


Folkert van Heusden

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-04-17 19:47 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
2009-04-15 12:46                 ` Jens Axboe
2009-04-17 19:46         ` Folkert van Heusden [this message]
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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