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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/8] Introduce provisioning primitives for thinly
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On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 11:48:34AM -0700, Sarthak Kukreti wrote:
> Yes. On ChromiumOS, we regularly deal with storage devices that don't
> support WRITE_ZEROES or that need to have it disabled, via a quirk,
> due to a bug in the vendor's implementation.

So bloody punich the vendors for it.  Unlike most of the Linux community
your actually have purchasing power and you'd help everyone by making
use of that instead adding hacks to upstream.