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From: "Mike Snitzer" <snitzer@gmail.com>
To: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0 of 7] Block/SCSI Data Integrity Support
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:55:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <170fa0d20807170655y6cb7df7eh6aae8c727b7b0bb@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yq1iqwhia2m.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net>

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Martin K. Petersen
<martin.petersen@oracle.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> writes:
>
> Jeff> Thanks for all of the great documentation.  It would be good to
> Jeff> include some instructions on how one would test this, and what
> Jeff> testing you performed.
>
> modprobe scsi_debug dix=199 dif=1 guard=1 dev_size_mb=1024 num_parts=1
>
> I'm testing with XFS and btrfs.  Generally doing kernel builds, etc.
> ext2/3 are still problematic because they modify pages in flight.

Have you made the ext2/3/4 developers aware of this?

Could you elaborate on the interaction between the data integrity
support in the block layer and a given filesystem?  Shouldn't _any_
filesystem "just work" given that the block layer is what is
generating the checksums and then verifying them on read?

regards,
Mike

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-17 13:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-07  4:55 [PATCH 0 of 7] Block/SCSI Data Integrity Support Martin K. Petersen
2008-06-07  4:55 ` [PATCH 1 of 7] lib: Add support for the T10 Data Integrity Field CRC Martin K. Petersen
2008-06-07  4:55 ` [PATCH 2 of 7] block: Globalize bio_set and bio_vec_slab Martin K. Petersen
2008-06-10 18:55   ` Jeff Moyer
2008-06-07  4:55 ` [PATCH 3 of 7] block: Find bio sector offset given idx and offset Martin K. Petersen
2008-06-09 16:07   ` Jeff Moyer
2008-06-09 16:15     ` Martin K. Petersen
2008-06-10 19:02   ` Jeff Moyer
2008-06-07  4:55 ` [PATCH 4 of 7] block: bio data integrity support Martin K. Petersen
2008-06-07 14:45   ` Monakhov Dmitri
2008-06-09 15:05     ` Martin K. Petersen
2008-06-10 20:52   ` Jeff Moyer
2008-06-11  4:05     ` Martin K. Petersen
2008-06-11 17:41       ` Jeff Moyer
2008-06-07  4:55 ` [PATCH 5 of 7] block: Block/request layer " Martin K. Petersen
2008-06-08  4:27   ` Greg KH
2008-06-09 15:06     ` Martin K. Petersen
2008-06-07  4:55 ` [PATCH 6 of 7] scsi: Support devices with protection information (DIF) Martin K. Petersen
2008-06-07  4:55 ` [PATCH 7 of 7] Support for SCSI disk (SBC) Data Integrity Field Martin K. Petersen
2008-06-10 14:41 ` [PATCH 0 of 7] Block/SCSI Data Integrity Support Jeff Moyer
2008-06-10 15:28   ` Martin K. Petersen
2008-06-10 18:49     ` Jeff Moyer
2008-06-10 20:47       ` Martin K. Petersen
2008-06-10 20:53         ` Jeff Moyer
2008-07-17 13:55     ` Mike Snitzer [this message]
2008-07-17 15:35       ` Martin K. Petersen

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