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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/device-mapper/log-writes.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/device-mapper/log-writes.txt b/Documentation/device-mapper/log-writes.txt index c10f30c9b534..f4ebcbaf50f3 100644 --- a/Documentation/device-mapper/log-writes.txt +++ b/Documentation/device-mapper/log-writes.txt @@ -14,14 +14,14 @@ Log Ordering We log things in order of completion once we are sure the write is no longer in cache. This means that normal WRITE requests are not actually logged until the -next REQ_FLUSH request. This is to make it easier for userspace to replay the -log in a way that correlates to what is on disk and not what is in cache, to -make it easier to detect improper waiting/flushing. +next REQ_PREFLUSH request. This is to make it easier for userspace to replay +the log in a way that correlates to what is on disk and not what is in cache, +to make it easier to detect improper waiting/flushing. This works by attaching all WRITE requests to a list once the write completes. -Once we see a REQ_FLUSH request we splice this list onto the request and once +Once we see a REQ_PREFLUSH request we splice this list onto the request and once the FLUSH request completes we log all of the WRITEs and then the FLUSH. Only -completed WRITEs, at the time the REQ_FLUSH is issued, are added in order to +completed WRITEs, at the time the REQ_PREFLUSH is issued, are added in order to simulate the worst case scenario with regard to power failures. Consider the following example (W means write, C means complete): |