Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965300AbVLRW1A (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Dec 2005 17:27:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965297AbVLRW07 (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Dec 2005 17:26:59 -0500 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:11186 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965300AbVLRW06 (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Dec 2005 17:26:58 -0500 From: Neil Brown To: "Szloboda Zsolt" Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 09:26:47 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17317.57895.187139.651739@cse.unsw.edu.au> Cc: Subject: RE: raid over sata - write barrier In-Reply-To: message from Szloboda Zsolt on Sunday December 18 References: <17317.51966.827057.524008@cse.unsw.edu.au> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.4.1 X-face: v[Gw_3E*Gng}4rRrKRYotwlE?.2|**#s9D with kernel 2.6.15, raid1 > do I have to use the > -o barrier=1 > mount option (or something else) when I mount the md device? You don't have to do anything special to the raid1. If the filesystem requires "-o barrier=1" (which I believe it does), then you need to use that no-matter what device the filesystem is mounted from. NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/