Re: [PATCH] fat: Add nobarrier to workaround the strange behavior of device

Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-28T14:32:20Z

On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 11:18:19PM +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> To workaround those devices and provide flexibility, this adds
> "barrier"/"nobarrier" mount options to fat driver.

We have deprecated these rather misnamed options, and now instead allow
tweaking the 'cache_type' attribute on the SCSI device.

That being said if the device behave this buggy you should also report
it to to the usb-storage and scsi maintainers so that we can add a
quirk for it.