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From: Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com>
To: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Will Drewry <redpig@dataspill.org>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] resize2fs and uninit_bg questions
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:43:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AB37248.4050309@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yq1ocp8943k.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net>

On 09/18/2009 02:09 AM, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
>>>>>> "Ric" == Ric Wheeler<rwheeler@redhat.com>  writes:
>>>>>>              
> Ric>  One note - the WRITE_SAME command in SCSI has long been used by
> Ric>  array vendors to do relatively high performance zero fills.
>
> I've been working on WRITE SAME and UNMAP support recently (layering on
> top of Christoph's patch kit).  It might be worthwhile to expose the
> WRITE SAME functionality further up the stack.  It could also be helpful
> for initializing RAID disks, for instance...
>
>    

Using it to initialize RAID disks is exactly what it is there for - that 
sounds quite useful...

ric


  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-18 11:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-16 16:24 [PATCH][RFC] resize2fs and uninit_bg questions Will Drewry
2009-09-16 19:08 ` Andreas Dilger
2009-09-16 20:42   ` Will Drewry
2009-09-16 21:22     ` Andreas Dilger
2009-09-16 23:11       ` Will Drewry
2009-09-17 19:28         ` Ric Wheeler
2009-09-18  6:09           ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-09-18 11:43             ` Ric Wheeler [this message]
2009-09-18 13:56               ` Andreas Dilger
2009-09-19 12:19         ` Will Drewry
2009-09-23  9:34           ` Andreas Dilger
2009-09-23 19:28             ` Will Drewry
2009-09-25  6:21               ` Andreas Dilger

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