Re: Status of write barrier support for 2.4?

Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Fri, 28 Jun 2002 20:02:03 +0200

On Thu, Jun 27 2002, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Hi,
>
> what is the status of write barrier support in Linux?

We have stable support for IDE (ie block layer barrier support works,
IDE implementation works). I doubt we'll ever do 2.4 SCSI support,
it would be too invasive to really make it safe.

> Is there a web page that documents patches and status?

Not to my knowledge.

-- 
Jens Axboe


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