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Date:      Fri, 01 May 2009 08:15:32 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r191717 - head/sys/dev/ata 
Message-ID:  <48416.1241165732@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 01 May 2009 08:03:46 GMT." <200905010803.n4183kGE036016@svn.freebsd.org> 

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In message <200905010803.n4183kGE036016@svn.freebsd.org>, Alexander Motin write
s:

>   - Drop pre-dump requests queue on dumping. ATA code, working in dumping
>  (interruptless) mode, unable to handle long request queue. Actually, to get
>  coherent dump we anyway should do as few unrelated actions as possible.

It seems a wrong tradeoff to me, to favour dump fidelity over filesystem
coherence.

Poul-Henning

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