>>>>> "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 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