From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Martin K. Petersen" Subject: Re: end to end error recovery musings Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:16:35 -0500 Message-ID: References: <664A4EBB07F29743873A87CF62C26D705D6DDB@NAMAIL4.ad.lsil.com> <20070227190236.58323a40@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20070227233946.7ad33a50@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <45E587C2.5010209@torque.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: In-Reply-To: <45E587C2.5010209@torque.net> (Douglas Gilbert's message of "Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:46:42 -0500") Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: dougg@torque.net Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" , Alan , "Moore, Eric" , ric@emc.com, Theodore Tso , Neil Brown , "H. Peter Anvin" , Linux-ide , linux-scsi , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo , James Bottomley , Mark Lord , Jens Axboe , "Clark, Nathan" , "Singh, Arvinder" , "De Smet, Jochen" , "Farmer, Matt" , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, "Mizar, Sunita" List-Id: linux-raid.ids >>>>> "Doug" == Douglas Gilbert writes: Doug> Work on SAT-2 is now underway and one of the agenda items is Doug> "end to end data protection" and is in the hands of the t13 Doug> ATA8-ACS technical editor. So it looks like data integrity is on Doug> the radar in the SATA world. It's cool that it's on the radar in terms of the protocol. That doesn't mean that drive manufacturers are going to implement it, though. The ones I've talked to were unwilling to sacrifice capacity because that's the main competitive factor in the SATA/consumer space. Maybe we'll see it in the nearline product ranges? That would be a good start... -- Martin K. Petersen http://mkp.net/