From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
To: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] um: ubd: Add REQ_FLUSH suppport
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 10:18:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130819091839.GX5918@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1376777374-17521-1-git-send-email-richard@nod.at>
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 12:09:34AM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> UML's block device driver does not support write barriers,
> to support this this patch adds REQ_FLUSH suppport.
> Every time the block layer sends a REQ_FLUSH we fsync() now
> our backing file to guarantee data consistency.
This fixes the sync problem I saw before. So:
Tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Rich.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-19 9:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-17 22:09 [PATCH] um: ubd: Add REQ_FLUSH suppport Richard Weinberger
2013-08-19 9:18 ` Richard W.M. Jones [this message]
2013-08-19 10:13 ` [uml-devel] " Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-08-19 11:09 ` Richard W.M. Jones
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