Re: Block layer - meaning of REQ_FUA on not write requests

2016-04-01 Thread Jeff Moyer
Alex Bligh writes: > I am trying to clean up the documentation of the NBD protocol. NBD's > support for Force Unit Access (FUA) was modelled on the linux kernel > block layer. When I added support a few years ago, I omitted to find > out exactly what types of request it applies

Re: Block layer - meaning of REQ_FUA on not write requests

2016-04-01 Thread Jeff Moyer
Alex Bligh writes: > I am trying to clean up the documentation of the NBD protocol. NBD's > support for Force Unit Access (FUA) was modelled on the linux kernel > block layer. When I added support a few years ago, I omitted to find > out exactly what types of request it applies to. Obviously it

Block layer - meaning of REQ_FUA on not write requests

2016-04-01 Thread Alex Bligh
I am trying to clean up the documentation of the NBD protocol. NBD's support for Force Unit Access (FUA) was modelled on the linux kernel block layer. When I added support a few years ago, I omitted to find out exactly what types of request it applies to. Obviously it applies to write requests,

Block layer - meaning of REQ_FUA on not write requests

2016-04-01 Thread Alex Bligh
I am trying to clean up the documentation of the NBD protocol. NBD's support for Force Unit Access (FUA) was modelled on the linux kernel block layer. When I added support a few years ago, I omitted to find out exactly what types of request it applies to. Obviously it applies to write requests,