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To:     Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>, lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org
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On 2/28/23 19:52, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> Unfortunately most common storage devices have
> not supported write hints, and support for write hints were ripped out
> last year.

Work is ongoing in T10 to add write hint support to SBC. We plan to 
propose to restore write hint support after there is agreement in T10 
about the approach. See also "Constrained SBC-5 Streams" 
(http://www.t10.org/cgi-bin/ac.pl?t=d&f=23-024r0.pdf). This proposal has 
been uploaded yesterday.

Bart.