Il 24/04/2013 23:02, James Bottomley ha scritto: > That just leaves us with random standards behaviour. Lets permit the > deterministic thing instead for the distros. It kills two birds with > one stone because we can set WCE for the stupid UAS devices that clear > it wrongly as well. > > For those who don't read code well, you add a temporary prefix to the > cache set in > > echo xxx > /sys/class/scsi_disk/<disk>/cache_type > > and it will set the flags for the lifetime of the current kernel, but > won't try to do a mode select to make them permanent. Having the knob is useful indeed. I don't like the "temporary" name though, because "temporary write-through" doesn't sound like it can eat data on a power loss. What about "force" or "assume"? Also, this would be in addition to my patch (when tested), right? Paolo -- 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
