Re: [PATCH] mke2fs: restore verbose message for BLKDISCARD

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On 03/08/2013 12:08 PM, Chris Ball wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Mar 08 2013, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>> I hate to suggest this, but there's so many crappy devices out there
>> that I'm wondering if we need to figure out some way of maintaining a
>> black list of devices that don't handle discard properly.
> 
> Yes, we already do that in the MMC layer.  See e.g.:
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/cjb/mmc.git/commit/?id=3550ccdb9d8d350e526b809bf3dd92b550a74fe1
> ("mmc: card: Skip secure erase on MoviNAND; causes unrecoverable corruption.")

Unrecoverable sounds scary. Does that just mean data corruption, or a
permanently broken device? mk2e2fs -K followed by e2fsck and mounting
luckily seems to still work OK for me:-)

FWIW, my CID is 45010053454d31364790711c665f3e00, i.e. manufacturer ID
0x45, device name SEM16G.
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