Re: s2disk and raid

2007-04-11 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
[I'm the original bug reporter. Sorry for getting so late into the conversation] On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 12:47:49AM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Neil Brown wrote: > > On Tuesday April 3, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [] > >> After the power cycle the kernel boots, devices are discovered, among > >

RE: [PATCH RFC 3/4] md: writeback caching policy for raid5 [experimental]

2007-04-11 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday April 11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > From: Mark Hahn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > In its current implementation write-back mode acknowledges writes > before > > > they have reached non-volatile media. > > > > which is basically normal for unix, no? > I am referring to when b

Re: [PATCH RFC 3/4] md: writeback caching policy for raid5 [experimental]

2007-04-11 Thread Al Boldi
Dan Williams wrote: > In write-through mode bi_end_io is called once writes to the data disk(s) > and the parity disk have completed. > > In write-back mode bi_end_io is called immediately after data has been > copied into the stripe cache, which also causes the stripe to be marked > dirty. This i

RE: [PATCH RFC 3/4] md: writeback caching policy for raid5 [experimental]

2007-04-11 Thread Williams, Dan J
> From: Mark Hahn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > In its current implementation write-back mode acknowledges writes before > > they have reached non-volatile media. > > which is basically normal for unix, no? I am referring to when bi_end_io is called on the bio submitted to MD. Normally it is no

Re: [PATCH RFC 3/4] md: writeback caching policy for raid5 [experimental]

2007-04-11 Thread Mark Hahn
In its current implementation write-back mode acknowledges writes before they have reached non-volatile media. which is basically normal for unix, no? are you planning to support barriers? (which are the block system's way of supporting filesystem atomicity). - To unsubscribe from this list:

[patch 11/31] Fix calculation for size of filemap_attr array in md/bitmap.

2007-04-11 Thread Greg KH
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If 'num_pages' were ever 1 more than a multiple of 8 (32bit platforms) for of 16 (64 bit platforms). filemap_attr would be allocated one 'unsigned long' shorter than re