Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: IDE todo list | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 23 Mar 2003 15:23:01 +0000 |
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On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 10:49, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Sat, Mar 22 2003, Alan Cox wrote: > > - Finish verifying 256 sector I/O or larger on LBA48 > > [How to handle change dynamically on hotplug ?] > > That is basically impossible. How are you going to handle the case where > you have a queue full of 256 request writes, and the plugged in disk > chokes on them? And insolvable unless you start setting aside requests > simply for this purpose. Also breaks the pseudo atomic segments that a > single request represents. This is just way beyond ugly...
I don't think its impossible at all. Remember if you hotplug a drive you *dont* want the pending I/O to hit the new drive!
Alan
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