On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 14:26 +0200, Stefan Gourguis wrote: > Dear List, > > i have connected an new ESXi5 (Update1 Build) to an Debian 6 LIO Target (Git commit e163b66985fa162bd7c1e29a049b336bc2790a2e). > The Esxi Server is single FC connected to Lio (P2P).. > Lio-Target serves n 100 GB LVM Disk via iblock to the ESXi. > I started installing an Windows 7 VM on this Datastore (VMFS 5.54) > > "Strong as a LIO-N" gives me a lot of Errors in dmesg: > > [ 1146.241497] MODE SENSE: unimplemented page/subpage: 0x1c/0x02 > [ 1231.742035] WRITE_SAME w/o UNMAP bit not supported for Block Discard Emulation > [ 1231.753493] WRITE_SAME w/o UNMAP bit not supported for Block Discard Emulation > [ 1231.765680] WRITE_SAME w/o UNMAP bit not supported for Block Discard Emulation > [ 1300.303536] WRITE_SAME w/o UNMAP bit not supported for Block Discard Emulation > [ 1300.308241] WRITE_SAME w/o UNMAP bit not supported for Block Discard Emulation > [ 1300.312904] WRITE_SAME w/o UNMAP bit not supported for Block Discard Emulation > [ 1313.008761] WRITE_SAME w/o UNMAP bit not supported for Block Discard Emulation > [ 1313.013449] WRITE_SAME w/o UNMAP bit not supported for Block Discard Emulation > [ 1313.018111] WRITE_SAME w/o UNMAP bit not supported for Block Discard Emulation > [ 1316.343687] WRITE_SAME w/o UNMAP bit not supported for Block Discard Emulation > [ 1316.348386] WRITE_SAME w/o UNMAP bit not supported for Block Discard Emulation > [ 1316.353041] WRITE_SAME w/o UNMAP bit not supported for Block Discard Emulation > [ 1320.468975] WRITE_SAME w/o UNMAP bit not supported for Block Discard Emulation > [ 1320.473646] WRITE_SAME w/o UNMAP bit not supported for Block Discard Emulation > [ 1320.478306] WRITE_SAME w/o UNMAP bit not supported for Block Discard Emulation > ... > Hi Stefan, The bugfix to make this work by default w/o the extra esxcli call to explicitly disable VAAI on all LUNs was reported by Martin Svec, and went into v3.2-rc5 here: target: Fix unsupported WRITE_SAME sense payload http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=67236c44741e250199ccd77f1115568e68cf8848 However it appears I missed the CC to stable on this one.. Greg-KH (CC'ed) would you mind including this into v3.1 and v3.0 stable releases for distros to pick up..? Thanks, --nab -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe target-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
