Re: [ANNOUNCE] xfs: Supporting Host Aware SMR Drives

2015-03-16 Thread Dave Chinner
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 08:12:16PM -0500, Alireza Haghdoost wrote: > On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 3:32 PM, Dave Chinner wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 11:28:53AM -0400, James Bottomley wrote: > >> Probably need to cc dm-devel here. However, I think we're all agreed > >> this is RAID across multipl

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Re: [ANNOUNCE] xfs: Supporting Host Aware SMR Drives

2015-03-16 Thread Alireza Haghdoost
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 3:32 PM, Dave Chinner wrote: > On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 11:28:53AM -0400, James Bottomley wrote: >> [cc to linux-scsi added since this seems relevant] >> On Mon, 2015-03-16 at 17:00 +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: >> > Hi Folks, >> > >> > As I told many people at Vault last week,

RE: [PATCH 0/3] scsi: storvsc: Increase the tablesize based on host's capabilities

2015-03-16 Thread KY Srinivasan
> -Original Message- > From: K. Y. Srinivasan [mailto:k...@microsoft.com] > Sent: Monday, March 9, 2015 8:42 PM > To: gre...@linuxfoundation.org; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; > de...@linuxdriverproject.org; oher...@suse.com; > jbottom...@parallels.com; h...@infradead.org; linux-scsi@vger

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xfs: Supporting Host Aware SMR Drives

2015-03-16 Thread Dave Chinner
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 11:28:53AM -0400, James Bottomley wrote: > [cc to linux-scsi added since this seems relevant] > On Mon, 2015-03-16 at 17:00 +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > > > As I told many people at Vault last week, I wrote a document > > outlining how we should modify the o

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xfs: Supporting Host Aware SMR Drives

2015-03-16 Thread Dave Chinner
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 03:06:27PM -0400, James Bottomley wrote: > On Mon, 2015-03-16 at 12:23 -0600, Adrian Palmer wrote: > [...] > > >> == Data zones > > >> > > >> What we need is a mechanism for tracking the location of zones (i.e. > > >> start LBA), > > >> free space/write pointers within each

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xfs: Supporting Host Aware SMR Drives

2015-03-16 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2015-03-16 at 12:23 -0600, Adrian Palmer wrote: [...] > >> == Data zones > >> > >> What we need is a mechanism for tracking the location of zones (i.e. start > >> LBA), > >> free space/write pointers within each zone, and some way of keeping track > >> of > >> that information across moun

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xfs: Supporting Host Aware SMR Drives

2015-03-16 Thread Adrian Palmer
Thanks for the document! I think we are off to a good start going in a common direction. We have quite a few details to iron out, but I feel that we are getting there by everyone simply expressing what's needed. My additions are in-line. Adrian Palmer Firmware Engineer II R&D Firmware Seagate,

Re: [PATCH 1/3] scsi: serialize ->rescan against ->remove

2015-03-16 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 05/03/2015 14:37, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > > On 05/03/2015 14:33, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> Any chance to get reviews for this series? Also we should at least >> expedite this first patch into 4.0-rc as it fixes scanning races >> in virtio_scsi. > > I reviewed 1 and 3, but I'm not really

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xfs: Supporting Host Aware SMR Drives

2015-03-16 Thread James Bottomley
[cc to linux-scsi added since this seems relevant] On Mon, 2015-03-16 at 17:00 +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > Hi Folks, > > As I told many people at Vault last week, I wrote a document > outlining how we should modify the on-disk structures of XFS to > support host aware SMR drives on the (long) pla

[PATCH] uas: Add US_FL_NO_ATA_1X for Initio Corporation controllers / devices

2015-03-16 Thread Hans de Goede
A new uas compatible controller has shown up in some people's devices from the manufacturer Initio Corporation, this controller needs the US_FL_NO_ATA_1X quirk to work properly with uas, so add it to the uas quirks table. Reported-and-tested-by: Benjamin Tissoires Cc: Benjamin Tissoires Cc: sta.

[PATCH RESEND] scsi: qla4xxx: drop duplicate init_completion

2015-03-16 Thread Nicholas Mc Guire
-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire --- Originally posted as http://lkml.org/lkml/2014/12/23/355 Patch was only compile-tested with x86_64_defconfig + CONFIG_SCSI_LOWLEVEL=y, CONFIG_SCSI_QLA_ISCSI=m Patch is against 4.0-rc3 (localversion-next is -next-20150316 drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_os.c |1 - 1 file

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4] xen-scsiback: define a pr_fmt macro with xen-pvscsi

2015-03-16 Thread David Vrabel
On 10/03/15 20:49, Tao Chen wrote: > Add the {xen-pvscsi: } prefix in pr_fmt and remove DPRINTK, then > replace all DPRINTK with pr_debug. > > Also fixed up some comments just as eliminate redundant whitespace > and format the code. > > These will make the code easier to read. Applied to devel/f

Re: [PATCH 0/7] aacraid driver updates

2015-03-16 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2015-03-16 at 11:24 +, Mahesh Rajashekhara wrote: > Hi James, > > Can you please let me know the status of this patch set which I > submitted sometime back. We're following this: http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=142556689315114 So you need a review. James -- To unsubscribe from t

avoid disk spinup at system resume

2015-03-16 Thread Peter Münster
Hi, My SATA disk (sdb) spins up at every system resume. How could I avoid that please? Some details: - sdb not mounted - echo 0 >/sys/block/sdb/device/scsi_disk/2:0:0:0/manage_start_stop - hdparm -C /dev/sdb : "drive state is: standby" - s2ram - after wake up: "drive state is: active

RE: [PATCH 0/7] aacraid driver updates

2015-03-16 Thread Mahesh Rajashekhara
Hi James, Can you please let me know the status of this patch set which I submitted sometime back. Thanks, Mahesh -Original Message- From: Mahesh Rajashekhara Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2015 2:08 PM To: jbottom...@parallels.com; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Cc: aacr...@pmc-sierra.com; Ha