On Saturday August 13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
WriteMostly is just a flag that tells us which devices will get the
write-behinds, and which will not. You'll be able to mix any
combination of WriteMostly devices and normal devices in a raid1.
Yes, but doesn't WriteMostly imply
Al Boldi wrote:
NeilBrown wrote:
If a device is flagged 'WriteMostly' and the array has a bitmap,
and the bitmap superblock indicates that write_behind is allowed,
then write_behind is enabled for WriteMostly devices.
Nice, but why is it dependent on WriteMostly?
WriteMostly is just a
Paul Clements wrote:
Al Boldi wrote:
NeilBrown wrote:
If a device is flagged 'WriteMostly' and the array has a bitmap,
and the bitmap superblock indicates that write_behind is allowed,
then write_behind is enabled for WriteMostly devices.
Nice, but why is it dependent on WriteMostly?
If a device is flagged 'WriteMostly' and the array has a bitmap,
and the bitmap superblock indicates that write_behind is allowed,
then write_behind is enabled for WriteMostly devices.
Write requests will be acknowledges as complete to the caller
(via b_end_io) when all non-WriteMostly devices
