Re: [PATCH 13/14] block: Allow REQ_FUA|REQ_READ

Keith Busch
2025-03-18T18:10:52Z

On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 02:00:13PM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> It's certainly not in dispute that read fua is a documented, legitimate
> command, so there's no reason for the block layer to be rejecting it.
>
> Whether it has exactly the behaviour we want isn't a critical issue that
> has to be determined right now. The starting point for that will be to
> test device behaviour (with some simple performance tests, like I
> mentioned), and anyways it's outside the scope of the block layer.

Maybe just change the commit log. Read FUA has legit uses for persisting
data as described by the specs. No need to introduce contested behavior
to justify this patch, yah?