Re: [PATCH 0/3] NBD fixes for caching and block device flags

Andrew Morton
2013-02-12T21:43:52Z

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.