Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [resend v1 5/5] drivers/scsi/sd.c: Convert to use disk_set_capacity | From | "Ewan D. Milne" <> | Date | Wed, 08 Jan 2020 16:27:55 -0500 |
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On Tue, 2020-01-07 at 21:59 -0500, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > 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. >
This happens with NVMe fabric devices, I thought. I'll check.
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