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From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>,
	device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>,
	ak@linux.intel.com,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] Barriers still not passing on simple dm devices...
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 11:28:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090409102851.GT5688@agk.fab.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1239240440.11220.3.camel@think.oraclecorp.com>

On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 09:27:20PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> I'm afraid expecting barriers forever in the future isn't completely
> compatible with dm or md.  Both of these allow the storage to change
> over time, and the filesystem needs to handle this without corruptions.
 
The missing piece of the jigsaw is notification to upper layers *ahead*
of such reconfigurations.  (We have similar notification issues when
devices are resized - the current approach is to leave the sysadmin
responsible for co-ordinating changes through userspace.)

Alasdair
-- 
agk@redhat.com

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-09 10:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-23 19:04 Eric Sandeen
2009-03-23 19:10 ` Eric Sandeen
2009-03-24 14:02 ` [dm-devel] " Mikulas Patocka
2009-03-24 14:05   ` Jens Axboe
2009-03-24 14:26     ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-03-24 14:30       ` Jens Axboe
2009-03-24 14:45         ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-03-24 15:05           ` Jens Axboe
2009-03-25 15:15             ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-03-25 15:27               ` Jens Axboe
2009-03-25 22:39                 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-03-26  8:42                   ` Jens Axboe
2009-03-31  3:39                     ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-03-31 10:49                       ` Jens Axboe
2009-04-02 23:40                         ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-04-03  8:11                           ` Jens Axboe
2009-04-04 15:20                             ` Ric Wheeler
2009-04-05  1:28                               ` Theodore Tso
2009-04-05 11:54                                 ` Ric Wheeler
2009-04-06  1:14                                   ` Lee Revell
2009-04-06  1:24                                     ` Ric Wheeler
2009-04-08 12:44                                     ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-04-08 15:16                                       ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2009-04-09  4:22                                     ` Eric Sandeen
2009-04-08 12:36                                 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-04-08 12:54                               ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-04-09 10:48                                 ` Ric Wheeler
2009-04-08 13:37                             ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-04-08 14:06                               ` Jens Axboe
2009-04-08 23:44                               ` Dave Chinner
2009-04-09  1:27                               ` Chris Mason
2009-04-09 10:28                                 ` Alasdair G Kergon [this message]
2009-03-26 12:55                   ` Chris Mason
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2009-03-26 13:05       ` Bodo Eggert
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2009-03-26 15:26                     ` Bodo Eggert

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