>>>>> "Phillip" == Phillip Susi <psusi@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: Phillip> On 12/03/2014 09:44 PM, Martin K. Petersen wrote: >> This patch whitelists SSDs from a few of the main vendors. None of >> the whitelists are based on written guarantees. They are purely based >> on empirical evidence collected from internal and external users that >> have tested or qualified these drives in RAID deployments. Phillip> Without anything in writing from the vendor, such a white list Phillip> amounts to nothing more than wishful thinking. You can't Phillip> really test for it and even if it *appears* to be so, the drive Phillip> is free to change its behavior any time. Well. It's a bit stronger than wishful thinking given that OEM product requirements documents and supply contracts make it so. But it is not something we can get in writing. It is, however, a step up from the blanket whitelist we've had so far where we assumed that it worked for every drive that had DRAT/RZAT set. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
