On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 01:47:35PM -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > There were several SSDs that did not want to support wearing out flash > by writing gobs of zeroes and only support the UNMAP case. Given that SSDs usually aren't hard provisioned anyway that seems like an odd decision. But SAS SSD would be something I'd at least expect to properly fail these.. > I don't have a problem with a BLIST_PREFER_UNMAP flag or something like > that. But BLIST_TRY_VPD_PAGES seems more generally useful and it does > fix the problem at hand. That's why I went that route. As I said I'm perfectly fine with your patch and I think we'll find more uses for it. I'll apply it as soon as I get a second review. -- 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