Hello Neil, Ingo and [insert your name here], I try to understand the raid5 and md code and I have a question concerning the cache.
There are two ways of calculating the parity: read-modify-write and reconstruct-write. In my understanding, the code only checks how many buffers it has to read for each method (rmw or rcw) without considering the cache. But what if there was relevant data in the cache? How would the raid code know it so it can build a decision on top of this knowledge? I hope You can help me, since I could not find any information on this in the mailing list archive. Thanks in advance, Jochen - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
