>>>>> "Darrick" == Darrick J Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: Darrick> Unfortunately, I didn't get a sense that any sort of consensus Darrick> had been reached We had a session on this topic at the storage workshop in Auguest. The consensus was that filesystems really need to handle this. Also, DIX is only the tip of the iceberg. Many other impending technologies feature checksums and require pages to be stable during I/O due to checksumming, encryption and so on. The VM is already trying to do the right thing. We just need the relevant filesystems to catch up. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- 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