We log things in order of completion once we are sure the write is no longer in
cache. This means that normal WRITE requests are not actually logged until the
-next REQ_FLUSH request. This is to make it easier for userspace to replay the
-log in a way that correlates to what is on disk and not what is in cache, to
-make it easier to detect improper waiting/flushing.
+next REQ_PREFLUSH request. This is to make it easier for userspace to replay
+the log in a way that correlates to what is on disk and not what is in cache,
+to make it easier to detect improper waiting/flushing.
This works by attaching all WRITE requests to a list once the write completes.
-Once we see a REQ_FLUSH request we splice this list onto the request and once
+Once we see a REQ_PREFLUSH request we splice this list onto the request and once
the FLUSH request completes we log all of the WRITEs and then the FLUSH. Only
-completed WRITEs, at the time the REQ_FLUSH is issued, are added in order to
+completed WRITEs, at the time the REQ_PREFLUSH is issued, are added in order to
simulate the worst case scenario with regard to power failures. Consider the
following example (W means write, C means complete):