>>>>> "Chris" == Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: Chris> 1) Does this workaround make sense? Perhaps there is an easier Chris> way? One option is to ship a udev rule that disables write same on VMware disks. However, I don't have a fundamental problem having a workaround for this in the kernel. Chris> 2) Do we expect changing max_write_same_blocks at the scsi_disk Chris> level to propagate the right write_same flags to other layers Chris> such as dm? No, there's currently no way to communicate that the underlying topology has changed. -- 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