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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: RAID-10 keeps aborting
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2013 11:40:47 -0700
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On 06/03/2013 11:35 AM, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
>>>>>> "hpa" == H Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
> 
> hpa> OK, so the device here says don't do this again, but fails the
> hpa> request anyway expecting the block device to pick up the slack.
> 
> Yes, the block layer function will resort to writing out zeroes directly
> in this case.
> 
> MD should not consider a rejected WRITE SAME a failure.
> 

Presumably MD should do the same thing that SCSI does: disable
write_same and kick the failure upstack?

	-hpa