Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Sep 2014 11:02:20 -0700 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mptfusion: enable no_write_same in scsi_host_template |
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On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 12:56:59PM -0500, Chris J Arges wrote: > When using a virtual SCSI disk in a VMWare VM if blkdev_issue_zeroout is used > data can be improperly zeroed out using the mptfusion driver. This patch > disables write_same for this driver which ensures that manual zeroing out > is used instead.
Does this affet real hardware or is it a VMware bug? If it's just the latter we should simply blacklist VMware.
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