Re: GJournal (hopefully) final patches.

From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 15:59:19 +0200
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 03:54:26PM +0200, Thomas Quinot wrote:
> * Pawel Jakub Dawidek, 2006-08-10 :
> 
> > I also added a flag for gmirror and graid3 which says "don't
> > resynchronize components after a power failure - trust they are
> > consistent". And they are always consistent when placed below gjournal.
> 
> That sounds a bit suprising; how does gjournal guarantee that a given
> write has been committed to the two providers of a mirror?

If the given write wasn't committed to all mirror components this
bascially means, that we had a power failure and gjournal will not be
clean, so it will be replayed or forgotten, leaving the data on mirror
in a consistent state.

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