[dm-devel] [PATCH 2/3] block: require write_same and discard requests align to logical block size
Christoph Hellwig
hch at infradead.org
Wed Apr 13 14:23:08 UTC 2016
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 09:01:35PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> Make sure that the offset and length arguments that we're using to
> construct WRITE SAME and DISCARD requests are actually aligned to the
> logical block size. Failure to do this causes other errors in other
> parts of the block layer or the SCSI layer because disks don't support
> partial logical block writes.
FYI, Bart has just been posting a patchset in that includes this, but
goes further. Can you take a look at it?
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