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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


  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-28 23:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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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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