Re: [PATCH 00/16] DRBD: a block device for HA clusters

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Philipp Reisner
<philipp.reisner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What we have in DRBD boils down to:

* We obey all possible write after write dependencies in the stream of
 writes we get from the upper layers. And generate DRBD internal
 reorder barriers for the packet stream.

Hello Philipp,

I couldn't find a call to blk_queue_ordered() in the DRBD 8.3.1 source
code. This made me wonder how DRBD obtains information about barriers
that is generated by filesystems like ext3 with the option barrier=1 ?

Bart.
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