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Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:14:36 -0700
From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: joseph.glanville@orionvm.com.au
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: Document lack of ordering of
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On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 01:40:30PM +1000, joseph.glanville@orionvm.com.au wrote:
> From: Joseph Glanville <joseph.glanville@orionvm.com.au>
> 
> It is worth noting here that the block layer makes no attempt
> to preserve the order of requests and that upper layers like
> journaling filesystems that require such ordering need to do so
> explicity.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joseph Glanville <joseph.glanville@orionvm.com.au>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

Thank you.

-- 
tejun