Hi Kashyap,

> We can test if you have any patch.

I'll send a PoC.

> SCSI SBC-4 requires that any drive that supports WRITE SAME (unmap=1)
> also support ndob=1.

That "requirement" is in the feature set normative section. Also, there
are lots of pre-SBC4 devices out there.

> So a drive supports it if it reports LBWS=1 in the Block Provisioning
> VPD page. If not, the drive violates the SBC-4 standard, so it's a
> drive problem.

I have the lab full of a variety of devices that support the Block
Provisioning VPD page and not a single one of them supports NDOB.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen      Oracle Linux Engineering

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