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From: Javier Guerra <javier@guerrag.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: Notes on block I/O data integrity
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:33:30 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <90eb1dc70908251233m4b90ddfuabb4d26bccd62c63@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090825181120.GA4863@lst.de>

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Christoph Hellwig<hch@lst.de> wrote:
>  - barrier requests and cache flushes are supported by all local
>   disk filesystem in popular use (btrfs, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, XFS).
>   However unlike the other filesystems ext3 does _NOT_ enable barriers
>   and cache flush requests by default.

what about LVM? iv'e read somewhere that it used to just eat barriers
used by XFS, making it less safe than simple partitions.

-- 
Javier

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-25 19:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-25 18:11 [Qemu-devel] Notes on block I/O data integrity Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-25 19:33 ` Javier Guerra [this message]
2009-08-25 19:36   ` [Qemu-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-26 18:57     ` Jamie Lokier
2009-08-26 22:17       ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-27  9:00         ` Jamie Lokier
2009-08-25 20:25 ` Nikola Ciprich
2009-08-26 18:55   ` Jamie Lokier
2009-08-27  0:15   ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-27 10:51 ` Rusty Russell
2009-08-27 13:42   ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-28  2:03     ` Rusty Russell
2009-08-27 14:09 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jamie Lokier

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