NeilBrown wrote:
> If a device is flagged 'WriteMostly' and the array has a bitmap,
> and the bitmap superblock indicates that write_behind is allowed,
> then write_behind is enabled for WriteMostly devices.

Nice, but why is it dependent on WriteMostly?

> This requires memory allocation to make a local copy of the data
> being written.  If there is insufficient memory, then we fall-back
> on normal write semantics.

Good!

Also, it would be nice to have something like:
echo 1 > /proc/md../../WriteBehindEnabled
echo 10 > /proc/md../../WriteBehindMaxDelayBeforeSync

Thanks!

--
Al

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