Bug#773734: Fixed upstream

Zdenek Kabelac zdenek.kabelac at gmail.com
Thu Mar 10 23:08:54 UTC 2016


On Sat, 04 Jul 2015 15:53:18 +0200 Jan Lentfer <Jan.Lentfer at web.de> wrote:
> According to this link, this error has already been fixed upstream.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1135639
>
> I also consider this bug "serious", as the default mode should be
> "writethrough" according to the man page, but due to this bug it
> defaults to "writeback" and it stays "writeback" even if you specify it
> differently. Also it is not easy to find out what the actual mode is. So
> users might end up with writeback caches on non-redundant cache-storage,
> which is going to lead to disaster.
>
> Please upgrade to an upstream version that has the fix. Thanks!!
>


Yes cache support was new  at 111 age - so purely experimental.

For cache usage - newer version of lvm2 is basically mandatory.
No one is going to backport cache fixes in 2.02.111.
Close bug as problem is fixed in newer releases.

Regards

Zdenek



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