From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] yet more struct scsi_lun Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 12:44:24 -0400 Message-ID: <435BBDE8.5080603@pobox.com> References: <20051023043301.GA22615@havoc.gtf.org> <20051023070011.GA26569@havoc.gtf.org> <435B6A62.8070306@torque.net> <1130068390.2775.6.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:63938 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750769AbVJWQo3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Oct 2005 12:44:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1130068390.2775.6.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: dougg@torque.net, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Arjan van de Ven wrote: > this is a bit of a problem since we don't know all the limits. We do > know that Microsoft Windows at least used to have a 64Kb limit, and that > that limit is "safe" in the sense that all hw was tested/designed for > that. So setting the default safe, and overriding it per driver sounds > best. It only really matters for a handful of drivers anyway, and those > either already set something or ought to. It's more a VM thing. Default is 512K (1024 sectors). Jeff