On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 10:42:17AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > A note to the virtio committee: eMMC is the worst of all the currently > active storage standards by a large margin. It defines very strange > ad-hoc interfaces that expose very specific internals and often provides > very poor abstractions. It would be great it you could reach out to the > wider storage community before taking bad ideas from the eMMC standard > and putting it into virtio. As Michael mentioned, there is still time to change the virtio-blk spec since this feature hasn't been released yet. Why exactly is exposing eMMC-style lifetime information problematic? Can you and Enrico discuss the use case to figure out an alternative interface? Thanks, Stefan
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