From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MD and rotational attribute
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:40:40 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120227114040.5b0235de@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yq18vjpuo1n.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net>
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On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 19:18:12 -0500 "Martin K. Petersen"
<martin.petersen@oracle.com> wrote:
> >>>>> "Neil" == NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> writes:
>
> Neil,
>
> Neil> (I would say that the name 'rotational' is a bug - the issues here
> Neil> is really whether seek is fast or slow is it not??... but no
> Neil> matter).
>
> Both the ATA and SCSI specs use the term 'rotational' which I guess is
> how we ended up with that name.
>
>
> Neil> What do you think Martin? Should QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT move to
> Neil> queue_limits much like QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER did?
>
> Absolutely. I posted some patches converting both the nonrot and
> discard/secure discard queue flags a while back but they didn't go
> in. I'll freshen up the kit and resend...
>
Thanks!
NeilBrown
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-20 12:20 MD and rotational attribute Karel Zak
[not found] ` <20120227104230.125cb9e2@notabene.brown>
2012-02-27 0:18 ` Martin K. Petersen
2012-02-27 0:40 ` NeilBrown [this message]
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