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From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: RAID-10 keeps aborting
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2013 13:54:52 -0400
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>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@gmail.com> writes:

>> MD should not consider a rejected WRITE SAME a failure.

Dan> What should md do in the partial success case?  

What exactly do you mean when you say "partial success"? Either the
device accepts the command or it doesn't...


Dan> Maybe just act on BIO_QUIET to retry the write with REQ_WRITE_SAME
Dan> cleared?

No go.

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering