On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 11:17:59AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > Back when I was writing the stable pages patches, I observed that some of the > filesystems didn't hold the pages containing their own metadata stable during > writeback on a stable-writes device. The journalling filesystems were fine > because they had various means to take care of that. > > ISTR ext2 and vfat were the biggest culprits, but both maintainers rejected > the patches to fix that behavior. This might no longer be the case; those > patches were so long ago I can't find them in Google.
Not at all surprised. Yeah, this would solve that problem - we just annotate those bios so we don't bounce them until we hit a point where we need to. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
