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Date:      Thu, 14 Apr 2016 18:22:25 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Subject:   Re: Heads up
Message-ID:  <57104251.5080102@mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfpnYnVrvhNagYUT9RhAuC1AMCrxh=GCt8RKT0bqxuJybw@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <CANCZdfpnYnVrvhNagYUT9RhAuC1AMCrxh=GCt8RKT0bqxuJybw@mail.gmail.com>

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On 4/14/16 3:42 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
> The CAM I/O scheduler has been committed to current. This work is described
> in https://people.freebsd.org/~imp/bsdcan2015/iosched-v3.pdf though the
> default scheduler doesn't change the default (old) behavior.
>
> One possible issue, however, is that it also enables NCQ Trims on ada SSDs.
> There are a few rogue drives that claim support for this feature, but
> actually implement data corrupt instead of queued trims. The list of known
> rogues is believed to be complete, but some caution is in order.
>
Yowch...

With data at stake wouldn't a whitelist be better along with a tool for 
testing it?

Example, you have whitelist and blacklist, if the device isn't on either 
list you output a kernel message and suggest they run a tool to "test" 
the controller and report back the findings?

-Alfred



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