svn commit: r191717 - head/sys/dev/ata

Fri May 1 08:15:38 UTC 2009

In message <200905010803.n4183kGE036016 at 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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