Public bug reported:

Description:
==========
Was installing perl packages using apt-get install command. I saw WRITE SAME 
failed displayed during the process.

Command used : apt-get install perl* 
on my Ubuntu guest to install all perl packages.

I saw the message as below
.
.
.
.
Setting up perlindex (1.606-1) ...
Generating index (this may take a while)...sda: WRITE SAME failed. Manually 
zeroing.
 done.

it took few seconds to complete  and later on the process continued.


Environment:
============

Host: Power8
Guest : ubuntu hosted on Power8

used below qemu command :

[root@localhost ubuntu_alpha1]# cat kvmg.p8.h
KERNEL=trusty-server-cloudimg-ppc64el-vmlinuz-generic
#FSIMAGE=trusty-server-cloudimg-ppc64el.img
FSIMAGE=trusty-server-cloudimg-ppc64el.img.qcow2
MEM=8G
qemu-system-ppc64 \
        -enable-kvm -M pseries -cpu POWER8 -smp cores=4,threads=1 -m $MEM \
        -net nic -net user \
        -device spapr-vscsi -drive file=$FSIMAGE \
        -kernel $KERNEL \
        -append "earlyprintk root=/dev/sda console=hvc0 --no-sessions" \
        -nographic

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: ppc64el

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  error sda: WRITE SAME failed when installing package

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