>>>>> "James" == James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> or even (not today, but some day) reject the IO. James> I really doubt this. All 4k drives today do RMW ... I don't see James> that changing any time soon. All consumer grade 4K phys drives do RMW. It's a different story for enterprise drives. The vendors appear to be divided between 4Kn and 512e with RMW mitigation. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>