RE: RAID controller safety

[Alan Cox]

On Gwe, 2006-01-06 at 07:18 -0800, Kenny Simpson wrote:
> Won't the i2o_block driver use i2o_block_device_flush to flush the devices' cache (by issuing a
> I2O_CMD_BLOCK_CFLUSH), or this this function used in some very different context?


I'm out of date. It was originally used on the last close of removable
media and to work around some promise bugs. Markus Lidel has indeed
added the relevant functions and hooks to let the block layer use it for
barriers

Alan

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