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> Also, your writes have to be very strictly ordered. Some intelligent IO
> subsystems will reorder your write operations on you, which I guess could
> cause lots of really obscure hard to track down funnies if you were unaware
> of you IO doing this.

SCSI itself has flags to stop that happening. We don't appear to have any way
right now to mark a request ordered let alone tell the scsi layer to tell
the card to order it.

Alan


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