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From: keith.busch@intel.com (Keith Busch)
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 20:14:26 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Partitions and end-to-end protection
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On Tue, 14 Jul 2015, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
>>>>>> "Keith" == Keith Busch <keith.busch at intel.com> writes:
> Keith> PRACT=1 strips/generates PI only for a subset of valid NVMe
> Keith> meta-data formats, so we need something for the others.
>
> *sigh* I hate that non-PI metadata stuff so much.

And it gets even worse! PI formatted drives with metadata size > 8 bytes
don't use PRACT either.