Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 1 Jul 2006 18:56:39 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.17-mm5 |
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On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 08:32:28AM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > The problem seems to be simply that on some hardware at least, > BIO_RW_BARRIER writes result in an EIO. Don't know why yet.
Could be that <whatever device> is choking on FLUSH CACHE (ATA) or SYNCHRONIZE CACHE (SCSI).
That's one possible reason why EIO may result from a barrier...
Jeff
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