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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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> What about iSCSI? Does it support barriers?

iSCSI uses just SCSI as the high level protocol as the name implies
and that supports barriers.  But it of course always depends on
the backend storage device and the particular driver.

-Andi

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