Re: [RFD] BIO_RW_BARRIER - what it means for devices, filesystems, and dm/md.

From: Jeremy Higdon
Date: Tue May 29 2007 - 02:46:42 EST


On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 02:48:45PM +1000, Timothy Shimmin wrote:
> I'm taking it that the FUA write will just guarantee that that
> particular write has made it to disk on i/o completion
> (and no write cache flush is done).

Correct. It only applies to that one write command.

jeremy
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