Re: [Nbd] Is NBD_CMD_FLAG_FUA valid during NBD_CMD_FLUSH?

[Alex Bligh <alex@...872...>]

On 1 Apr 2016, at 16:08, Eric Blake <eblake@...696...> wrote:

> But yes, I'm favoring a) as well, for the simplicity factor.  There's
> still the issue that if we document a behavior, a new client talking to
> an older server can't reliably tell if the behavior will be guaranteed.

Existing clients should not be sending FUA on anything other than
NBD_CMD_WRITE *and* relying on the behaviour, as the behaviour is
not documented (hence this discussion). Therefore it shouldn't
break anything. I also think it won't break anything in practice
as qemu doesn't use FUA on write and the kernel doesn't use FUA
at all; I realise that is not an exhaustive list.

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Alex Bligh

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