Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3] mptfusion: enable no_write_same for vmware scsi disks | From | "Martin K. Petersen" <> | Date | Tue, 23 Sep 2014 19:28:04 -0400 |
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>>>>> "Chris" == Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com> writes:
Chris> 1) Does this workaround make sense? Perhaps there is an easier Chris> way?
One option is to ship a udev rule that disables write same on VMware disks. However, I don't have a fundamental problem having a workaround for this in the kernel.
Chris> 2) Do we expect changing max_write_same_blocks at the scsi_disk Chris> level to propagate the right write_same flags to other layers Chris> such as dm?
No, there's currently no way to communicate that the underlying topology has changed.
-- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
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