Am 14.07.2010 19:40, schrieb Anthony Liguori: > On 07/14/2010 11:42 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote: >> However, I wonder why you even bother with adjusting buffers and >> requests and stuff instead of just returning a straight -EIO. Doing so >> would have the additional advantage that the expectation of the guest OS >> matches what is really on the disk (garbage) instead of silently >> corrupting things. >> > > I started with that approach. My concern is that it would trigger the > stop-on-error behavior and the result would be far too difficult for a > management tool/person to deal with. > > Scrubbing seemed like a easier-to-use solution.
Right, I didn't consider that. Makes sense then. Kevin
