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From: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: RFC: 512e ZBC host-managed disks
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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 10:02:55 -0500
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Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> writes:

> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 05:13:52PM +0900, Damien Le Moal wrote:
>> (3) Any other idea ?
>
> Do nothing and ignore the problem.  This whole idea so braindead that
> the person coming up with the T10 language should be shot.  Either a device
> has 511 logical sectors or 4k but not this crazy mix.
>
> And make sure no one ships such a piece of crap because we are hell
> not going to support it.

Agreed.  This is insane.

-Jeff