On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 10:44:55AM +0200, Philipp Reisner wrote: > > Currently, FLUSH/FUA doesn't enforce any ordering requirement. File > > systems are responsible for draining all writes which have to happen > > before and not issue further writes which should come after. > > Ok. That is a clear statement. So we will do it that way. > > The "Currently" in you statement, suggests that there might be something > more mighty in the future. Is that true?
Heh, I was more thinking about the past. We used to have barrier support with much stricter ordering. I don't think we're gonna change the ordering requirement in any foreseeable future. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
