Re: [PATCH 0/6] block: add support for REQ_OP_VERIFY

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On Sat, Dec 03, 2022 at 07:19:17AM +0300, Javier González wrote:
> 
> > On 2 Dec 2022, at 17.58, Keith Busch <kbusch@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, Dec 02, 2022 at 08:16:30AM +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> >>> On 12/1/22 20:39, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> >>> On Thu, Dec 01, 2022 at 06:12:46PM +0000, Chaitanya Kulkarni wrote:
> >>>> So nobody can get away with a lie.
> >>> 
> >>> And yet devices do exist which lie.  I'm not surprised that vendors
> >>> vehemently claim that they don't, or "nobody would get away with it".
> >>> But, of course, they do.  And there's no way for us to find out if
> >>> they're lying!
> >>> 
> >> But we'll never be able to figure that out unless we try.
> >> 
> >> Once we've tried we will have proof either way.
> > 
> > As long as the protocols don't provide proof-of-work, trying this
> > doesn't really prove anything with respect to this concern.
> 
> Is this something we should bring to NVMe? Seems like the main disagreement can be addressed there. 

Yeah, proof for the host appears to require a new feature, so we'd need
to bring this to the TWG. I can draft a TPAR if there's interest and
have ideas on how the feature could be implemented, but I currently
don't have enough skin in this game to sponser it.



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