From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fat: Add nobarrier to workaround the strange behavior of device
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 09:02:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190628160230.GA24232@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pnmxpx9p.fsf@mail.parknet.co.jp>
On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 12:03:46AM +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> I see, sounds like good though. Does it work for all stable versions?
> Can it disable only flush command without other effect? And it would be
> better to be normal user controllable easily.
The option was added in 2.6.17, so it's been around forever. But
no, it obviously is not user exposed as using it on a normal drive
can lead to data loss.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-28 16:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-28 14:18 [PATCH] fat: Add nobarrier to workaround the strange behavior of device OGAWA Hirofumi
2019-06-28 14:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-28 15:03 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2019-06-28 16:02 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2019-06-28 16:27 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
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