>>>>> "Tejun" == Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: Tejun> If raid consistency truly is the only reason for this, that Tejun> approach seems way more fruitful to me than playing this optional Tejun> feature game with hardware vendors which so often leads to Tejun> eventual abysmal outcomes. The other use case is the filesystem one where it is common to zero block ranges for bitmaps, etc. In many workloads there's is a significant win to trimming over writing out many blocks of zeroes. -- 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