From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>,
Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
dm-devel@redhat.com, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.or
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] do not disable ext4 discards on first discard failure? [was: Re: dm snapshot: ignore discards issued to the snapshot-origin target]
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:01:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DB9F1BE.7090208@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110428225945.GG32370@agk-dp.fab.redhat.com>
On 4/28/11 5:59 PM, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 04:28:17PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> I still think that concats of floppies, usb disks, and ssds should be rare, so I'm less concerned about that ;)
>
> It's the 'undefined' cases that cause us the trouble though: we do have
> to return something and I prefer to work with defined and documented
> behaviour, rather than pretending something is 'undefined' or
> 'unimportant' and later finding people relied on its actual behaviour.
If you are saying that a target should return EOPNOTSUPP when it does not support the operation, then we are in violent agreement. :)
-Eric
> Alasdair
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2011-04-28 20:59 ` do not disable ext4 discards on first discard failure? [was: Re: dm snapshot: ignore discards issued to the snapshot-origin target] Mike Snitzer
2011-04-28 21:28 ` Eric Sandeen
2011-04-28 22:59 ` [linux-lvm] " Alasdair G Kergon
2011-04-28 23:01 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2011-04-28 23:11 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2011-04-29 1:12 ` Andreas Dilger
2011-04-29 9:30 ` Lukas Czerner
2011-04-29 12:24 ` [dm-devel] " Alasdair G Kergon
2011-04-29 12:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-29 14:28 ` Eric Sandeen
2011-04-29 15:13 ` [linux-lvm] " Ray Morris
2011-05-04 16:33 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-05-04 16:51 ` Eric Sandeen
2011-05-04 16:57 ` Lukas Czerner
2011-05-04 17:02 ` Lukas Czerner
2011-05-02 7:16 ` Lukas Czerner
2011-05-02 8:13 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2011-05-02 8:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-05-02 10:24 ` Lukas Czerner
2011-05-02 12:48 ` Mike Snitzer
2011-05-02 13:05 ` Lukas Czerner
2011-05-02 14:47 ` Eric Sandeen
2011-05-02 14:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-05-02 14:58 ` Lukas Czerner
2011-05-02 13:48 ` [dm-devel] " Martin K. Petersen
2011-05-02 14:20 ` Martin K. Petersen
2011-05-02 14:39 ` [dm-devel] " Lukas Czerner
2011-05-02 14:50 ` Martin K. Petersen
2011-05-02 14:58 ` Mike Snitzer
2011-05-02 16:58 ` [dm-devel] " Martin K. Petersen
2011-05-03 8:57 ` Lukas Czerner
2011-05-04 15:10 ` Martin K. Petersen
2011-05-04 16:02 ` Mike Snitzer
2011-05-04 16:50 ` Martin K. Petersen
2011-05-04 18:03 ` Mike Snitzer
2011-05-04 17:10 ` [dm-devel] " Lukas Czerner
2011-05-04 17:32 ` Martin K. Petersen
2011-05-04 17:35 ` Lukas Czerner
2011-05-18 12:16 ` Mike Snitzer
2011-05-18 12:52 ` Mike Snitzer
2011-05-04 15:16 ` [dm-devel] " Martin K. Petersen
2011-05-04 16:12 ` Lukas Czerner
2011-05-05 8:33 ` Karel Zak
2011-05-05 10:48 ` Lukas Czerner
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