On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 10:11:10AM +0800, Andreas Dilger wrote: > 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?)
Actually, this patch is against the out-of-tree Marvell driver (mv_sata), not the in-kernel driver (sata_mv.) Why are you still using this driver? You should really be using the in-kernel driver (and fixing it if needed) since mv_sata is abit of a dead end. Cheers, Jody > > 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
