On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 07:59:03 +1100 ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks Mark, > > That was my understanding from the SSC spec too, though I am not a tape guy. > > > So, this means that the behaviour in the patch is standards compliant, > and also what physical devices do. > Destage to physical medium is only guaranteed to be completed once the > WRITE-FILEMARK has finished. > > > So we dont need to add any controls to activate/deactivate this new behaviour. > We can just apply the current patch as-is and that is all we need to do. I'd love the patch, but can anyone give me a pointer in the spec, please. Thanks, -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stgt" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html