Hi Andreas, Yes, I absolutely agree. I will file this as RFE. But, the patch is useful now as work-around for disabling the write cache of all of drives.
Thanks, -Ihara Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Nov 02, 2007 10:32 +0900, Syuuichi Ihara wrote: >> I have just filed the patch for disabling the write cache for mv_sata. >> Please see below. >> https://bugzilla.clusterfs.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14040 > > Ihara-san, > have you looked at submitting this patch to the upstream driver maintainers > and/or Red Hat? It looks like the patch is hard coded to disable the write > cache, but it would be desirable to allow this to be a tunable parameter > (e.g. module parameter, or /proc setting?) > >> Martin Gasthuber wrote: >>> we are in the process of configuring a thumper (Sun X4500) running >>> RHEL 4.5 as an OSS/OST - for this we need a patch for the Sun-Marvell >>> driver to disable the disk write cache - did anybody has this patch ??? > > Cheers, Andreas > -- > Andreas Dilger > Sr. Software Engineer, Lustre Group > Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. > > _______________________________________________ > Lustre-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.clusterfs.com/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.clusterfs.com/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
