On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 06:07:00PM +0100, Stefan Richter wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > I just am worried that we are > > now suddenly keeping access from the last sector for devices that > > currently did work just fine. > > This new workaround doesn't prevent access to the last sector. It only > breaks up a multi-sector access which would also reach the last sector > into several (two? I'm too lazy to look back in the mail thread) > accesses, in order to access the last sector in a dedicated > single-sector access. > > So that's very differently to the fix-capacity workaround. The > fix-capacity workaround manipulates the READ CAPACITY parameter data. > Therefore the fix-capacity workaround is unsafe for non-buggy devices. > > The last-sector-(access-)bug workaround _only_ modifies the command > stream which is sent to the device. A dangerous command is replaced by > equivalent safe commands. These commands are luckily safe for _all_ > devices, buggy and non-buggy ones. The only cost of this workaround is > (1.) the code, (2.) the runtime/ bandwidth/ latency overhead for > accesses which reach the last sector. Ok, thanks for explaining it better. I have no objection to this change anymore. thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
