Doug, > The T10 members that I have spoken to, have expressed surprise that > Linux kernel developers are contemplating removing SCSI bidi support. > True, XDWRITEREAD and bidi friends have been removed from draft SBC-4 > but they are still used by RAID vendors and there is no move to deprecate > them from SBC-3, the current standard. You can't deprecate something from an existing standard. > There also seems to be a consensus forming to add READ GATHERED (the > bidi variant) to draft SBC-4. That's news to me. I haven't heard anything happening on that front in T10 in a long time. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
