On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 09:13:08AM +0100, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 09:16:21AM +0200, Lukas Czerner wrote: > > However when we have dm device where part of the device supports > > discard due to underlying hardware capability we just can not return > > EOPNOTSUPP from blkdev_issue_discard, because it is just not true! > > EOPNOTSUPP from dm means the operation was not supported on that *one* bio. > It does *not* tell you anything in general about the device, or whether > you'd get the same error from different bios in future. Exactly. We already have the information in the queue limits to tell the filesystem if discard is supported at all or not. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
