Device loses barrier support
Timothy Shimmin
tes at sgi.com
Thu Dec 4 23:44:14 CST 2008
Andi Kleen wrote:
> The write block with barrier bit varies, jbd/gfs2 do it synchronously
> too and xfs does it asynchronously (with io done callbacks), but
> in both cases they handle an EOPNOTSUPP comming out in the final
> io done.
>
Yes, XFS handles it, however,
it doesn't look like we currently propagate the EOPNOTSUPP
up to where we test it (not set for b_error).
Patch disscussed recently on xfs list to rectify this.
--Tim
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