From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] bdi: Create a flag to indicate that a backing device needs stable page writes
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 00:10:22 -0400
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>>>>> "Darrick" == Darrick J Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> writes:

Darrick> This creates BDI_CAP_STABLE_WRITES, which indicates that a
Darrick> device requires stable page writes.  It also plumbs in a sysfs
Darrick> attribute so that admins can check the device status.

Might be nice to make the sysfs knob tweakable. Also, don't forget to
add a suitable blurb to Documentation/ABI/.

Feel free to add my Acked-by:

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering