[CentOS] /proc/mounts always shows nobarrier option for xfs, even when mounted with barrier

2010-01-21 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Ran into a confusing situation today. When I mount an xfs filesystem on a server running centos 5.4 x86_64 with kernel 2.6.18-164.9.1.el5, the barrier/nobarrier mount option as displayed in /proc/mounts is always set to nobarrier Here's an example: [r...@host ~]# mount -o nobarrier

Re: [CentOS] /proc/mounts always shows nobarrier option for xfs, even when mounted with barrier

2010-01-21 Thread Ross Walker
On Jan 21, 2010, at 4:04 PM, Tom Georgoulias t...@mcclatchyinteractive.com wrote: Ran into a confusing situation today. When I mount an xfs filesystem on a server running centos 5.4 x86_64 with kernel 2.6.18-164.9.1.el5, the barrier/nobarrier mount option as displayed in /proc/mounts is

Re: [CentOS] /proc/mounts always shows nobarrier option for xfs, even when mounted with barrier

2010-01-21 Thread Tom Georgoulias
On 01/21/2010 04:13 PM, Ross Walker wrote: On Jan 21, 2010, at 4:04 PM, Tom Georgouliast...@mcclatchyinteractive.com wrote: Ran into a confusing situation today. When I mount an xfs filesystem on a server running centos 5.4 x86_64 with kernel 2.6.18-164.9.1.el5, the barrier/nobarrier