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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] enable FUA support in libata
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:18:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F8835B8.2060400@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120413081104.GA4953@gmail.com>

On 04/13/2012 04:11 AM, Zheng Liu wrote:
> Hi Jeff and list,
>
> Recently I met a problem about FUA support of SATA disk.  In my machine,
> it has a SATA disk that supports FUA feature.  But after system starts
> up, it displays that the disk cannot support FUA from dmesg.
>
> I notice this commit (c3c013a2).  It disables FUA support in all of SATA
> disk.  But the commit log is too simple to know why we should disable
> FUA support in libata.  Could you please explain it?  Thank you.

FUA support in the block layer wanted speed and guarantees that early 
FUA drives were simply not providing.




  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-13 14:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-13  8:11 [RFC] enable FUA support in libata Zheng Liu
2012-04-13 14:18 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2012-04-13 15:25   ` Zheng Liu

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