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Subject: Re: Why removing REQ_FAILFAST_DRIVER in LightNVM?
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On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 02:01:46PM +0200, Javier Gonz�lez wrote:
> I think it is good to fail fast as any other nvme I/O command and then
> recover in pblk if necessary.

Note that we only do it for other nvme _passthrough_ commands - the
actual I/O commands dot not get the failfast flag.