On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 00:45:22 -0700 Christoph Hellwig <h...@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 06:52:42AM +0200, Fabian Frederick wrote: > > Currently, there's no generic HW flush management support in kernel. > > Only 7 filesystems have their own way to manage the barrier flag. > > > > This patch adds MS_BARRIER in sb_flags and conditionnaly issues the flush > > in generic_file_fsync. > > Please don't add a binary mount option for something thast already is a > text option in many filesystems. We can actually enable/disable cache > flushes at the block device level, so I think this can be > unconditional. Ok, that would mean 'older' filesystems -without barrier flag- to call generic_file_fsync would result in a flush but ext4 without journal also calls it ; maybe with nobarrier and I'm not sure it's the only case. How can I deal with this problem ? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
