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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nbd-general@lists.sf.net,
	Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@steeleye.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] NBD fixes for caching and block device flags
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:43:49 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130212134349.579be89a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1360685171-3792-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com>

On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:06:08 +0100
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:

> The first two patches improve the behavior of NBD with respect to the host
> cache---respectively the server's cache and the client's.  The first adds
> support for flushing the backing storage, so that NBD is safe against
> power losses.  The second properly syncs and cleans the client's page
> cache when an NBD device is disconnected from the server.
> 
> The third reports read-only devices properly in sysfs.
> 
> Ok for 3.9?  I saw the last NBD patches were applied by Andrew Morton,
> so I'm CCing him; Paul, please ack them if they are okay.

I grabbed these and will await Paul's feedback, and a bit more
changelog detail for [1/3], please.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-02-12 21:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-12 16:06 [PATCH 0/3] NBD fixes for caching and block device flags Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-12 16:06 ` [PATCH 1/3] nbd: support FLUSH requests Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-12 17:37   ` Alex Bligh
2013-02-12 18:06     ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-12 21:32       ` Andrew Morton
2013-02-13  0:03         ` Alex Bligh
2013-02-13 13:00           ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-13 15:55             ` Alex Bligh
2013-02-13 16:02               ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-13 17:35                 ` Alex Bligh
2013-02-13  0:00       ` Alex Bligh
2013-02-12 22:07   ` Paul Clements
2013-02-12 16:06 ` [PATCH 2/3] nbd: fsync and kill block device on shutdown Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-12 21:41   ` Andrew Morton
2013-02-13 13:05     ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-12 22:15   ` Paul Clements
2013-02-12 16:06 ` [PATCH 3/3] nbd: show read-only state in sysfs Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-12 22:16   ` Paul Clements
2013-02-12 21:43 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2013-02-13 17:14   ` [Nbd] [PATCH 0/3] NBD fixes for caching and block device flags Wouter Verhelst

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