Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [resend v1 5/5] drivers/scsi/sd.c: Convert to use disk_set_capacity | From | "Martin K. Petersen" <> | Date | Tue, 07 Jan 2020 21:59:58 -0500 |
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Ewan,
> Yes, there are some storage arrays that refuse a READ CAPACITY > command in certain ALUA states so you can't get the new capacity > anyway.
Yep. And some devices will temporarily return a capacity of 0xFFFFFFFF... If we were to trigger a filesystem resize, the results would be disastrous.
> It might be nice to improve this, though, there are some cases now > where we set the capacity to zero when we revalidate and can't get the > value.
If you have a test case, let's fix it.
-- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
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