Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Apr 2021 09:44:35 +0100 | From | Stefan Hajnoczi <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] virtio_blk: Add support for lifetime feature |
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On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 10:42:17AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > A note to the virtio committee: eMMC is the worst of all the currently > active storage standards by a large margin. It defines very strange > ad-hoc interfaces that expose very specific internals and often provides > very poor abstractions. It would be great it you could reach out to the > wider storage community before taking bad ideas from the eMMC standard > and putting it into virtio.
As Michael mentioned, there is still time to change the virtio-blk spec since this feature hasn't been released yet.
Why exactly is exposing eMMC-style lifetime information problematic?
Can you and Enrico discuss the use case to figure out an alternative interface?
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