Re: RFC: 512e ZBC host-managed disks

2017-01-12 Thread Damien Le Moal


On 1/13/17 00:02, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig  writes:
> 
>> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 05:13:52PM +0900, Damien Le Moal wrote:
>>> (3) Any other idea ?
>>
>> Do nothing and ignore the problem.  This whole idea so braindead that
>> the person coming up with the T10 language should be shot.  Either a device
>> has 511 logical sectors or 4k but not this crazy mix.
>>
>> And make sure no one ships such a piece of crap because we are hell
>> not going to support it.
> 
> Agreed.  This is insane.

Christoph, Jeff,

Thank you for the feedback.

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Re: RFC: 512e ZBC host-managed disks

2017-01-12 Thread Jeff Moyer
Christoph Hellwig  writes:

> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 05:13:52PM +0900, Damien Le Moal wrote:
>> (3) Any other idea ?
>
> Do nothing and ignore the problem.  This whole idea so braindead that
> the person coming up with the T10 language should be shot.  Either a device
> has 511 logical sectors or 4k but not this crazy mix.
>
> And make sure no one ships such a piece of crap because we are hell
> not going to support it.

Agreed.  This is insane.

-Jeff
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Re: RFC: 512e ZBC host-managed disks

2017-01-12 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 05:13:52PM +0900, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> (3) Any other idea ?

Do nothing and ignore the problem.  This whole idea so braindead that
the person coming up with the T10 language should be shot.  Either a device
has 511 logical sectors or 4k but not this crazy mix.

And make sure no one ships such a piece of crap because we are hell
not going to support it.
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