It's unused now. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/fs.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/fs.h 2010-08-17 16:50:01.004254175 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/fs.h 2010-08-17 16:52:27.329271148 +0200 @@ -138,7 +138,6 @@ struct inodes_stat_t { * SWRITE_SYNC * SWRITE_SYNC_PLUG Like WRITE_SYNC/WRITE_SYNC_PLUG, but locks the buffer. * See SWRITE. - * WRITE_BARRIER DEPRECATED. Always fails. Use FLUSH/FUA instead. * WRITE_FLUSH Like WRITE_SYNC but with preceding cache flush. * WRITE_FUA Like WRITE_SYNC but data is guaranteed to be on * non-volatile media on completion. @@ -160,8 +159,6 @@ struct inodes_stat_t { #define WRITE_SYNC (WRITE | REQ_SYNC | REQ_NOIDLE | REQ_UNPLUG) #define WRITE_ODIRECT_PLUG (WRITE | REQ_SYNC) #define WRITE_META (WRITE | REQ_META) -#define WRITE_BARRIER (WRITE | REQ_SYNC | REQ_NOIDLE | REQ_UNPLUG | \ - REQ_HARDBARRIER) #define WRITE_FLUSH (WRITE | REQ_SYNC | REQ_NOIDLE | REQ_UNPLUG | \ REQ_FLUSH) #define WRITE_FUA (WRITE | REQ_SYNC | REQ_NOIDLE | REQ_UNPLUG | \