Re: BIO_FLUSH on twe driver. Why is it not there?

On Friday 02 November 2007 05:55:07 am Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 10:41:00PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote:
> > "Artem Kuchin" <matrix_at_itlegion.ru> writes:
> > > However, twe is working via scsi subsystem and the authour of gjournal
> > > said somewhere that he has had implemeneted BIO_FLISH for scsi and he
> > > specifically mentioned that he has tested twe and twa and they both
> > > support BIO_FLUSH.
> > 
> > twa(4) uses CAM, but twe(4) doesn't (and never has).
> 
> That was my mistake. Someone told me (I think it was jhb_at_), that twe(4)
> turns off write cache automatically when there is no battery, so
> BIO_FLUSH isn't really needed and if there is a battery, it also isn't
> really needed. It would be nice to hide the warning in this case
> somehow, but for now you should be safe by simply ignoring the warning.

I have no idea if twe(4) does this.  I do know that both ciss(4) and mfi(4)
do this.  Possibly amr(4) as well.

-- 
John Baldwin