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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fat: Add nobarrier to workaround the strange behavior of device
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 07:32:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190628143216.GA538@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871rzdrdxw.fsf@mail.parknet.co.jp>

On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 11:18:19PM +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> To workaround those devices and provide flexibility, this adds
> "barrier"/"nobarrier" mount options to fat driver.

We have deprecated these rather misnamed options, and now instead allow
tweaking the 'cache_type' attribute on the SCSI device.

That being said if the device behave this buggy you should also report
it to to the usb-storage and scsi maintainers so that we can add a
quirk for it.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-28 14:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-28 14:18 [PATCH] fat: Add nobarrier to workaround the strange behavior of device OGAWA Hirofumi
2019-06-28 14:32 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2019-06-28 15:03   ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2019-06-28 16:02     ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-28 16:27       ` OGAWA Hirofumi

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