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From: Ric Wheeler <ricwheeler@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] 'discard sectors' block request.
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:21:39 -0400
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I think that this is a very interesting patch. Just for background, 
NetApp has proposed some extensions for a similar SCSI mechanism aimed 
more at large arrays which want to do "thin provisioned LUNS":

08-149R0 2008/03/11 SBC - Thin Provisioning 

http://www.t10.org/ftp/t10/document.08/08-149r0.pdf

08-070R0 2008/01/14 Thin Provisioning Concept Proposal

http://www.t10.org/ftp/t10/document.08/08-070r0.pdf


ric