Bug 729160

Summary: Backport dm-snapshot cache flush
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Mikuláš Patočka <mpatocka>
Component: kernelAssignee: Red Hat Kernel Manager <kernel-mgr>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
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Version: 6.1CC: msnitzer
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Description Mikuláš Patočka 2011-08-08 21:32:36 UTC
Created attachment 517312 [details]
Patch ported from upstream

Backport upstream patch 762a80d9fc9f690a3a35983f3b4619a220650808

This patch flushes hardware disk cache when merging a snapshot. Without the patch, writes may be reordered and data corruption is possible in case of power failure.

Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2011-08-08 21:40:39 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion
in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has 
requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed 
products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release.

Comment 2 Mike Snitzer 2011-08-08 22:18:19 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 723005 ***