Re: sg regression in 2.6.16-rc5

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On Mar 1, 2006, at 1:42 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:



On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Mark Lord wrote:

Linus Torvalds wrote:

On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Matthias Andree wrote:
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Douglas Gilbert wrote:

You can stop right there with the 1 MB reads. Welcome
to the new, blander sg driver which now shares many
size shortcomings with the block subsystem.
What is the reason to break user-space applications like this?

Did you read the whole thread? It was a low-level SCSI driver issue, where
nothing broke user space, but the command was just fed to the drive
differently, which then hit a limit in the driver.

Will this break major applications like CD/DVD rippers,
DVD players, etc.. which read LARGE blocks at a time?

If not, then good!

I wouldn't expect it to. Most people use ATA for that, and it tends to
have lower limits than most SCSI HBA's (well, at least the old PATA), so the change - if any - should at most change some of the sg.c limits to be
no less than what SG_IO has had on ATA forever.

Not that I expect people to have a SCSI CD/DVD drive anyway in this day
and age, so the sg.c changes probably won't show up at all.

CD-ROM support is a frequently-requested feature on the iSCSI Enterprise Target (iet) email list. It won't be long before iSCSI CD and DVD devices start showing up, although the underlying hardware will be ATAPI or else missing entirely (i.e. ISO image file).

Regards,
-Steve
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Steve Byan <[email protected]>
Software Architect
Egenera, Inc.
165 Forest Street
Marlboro, MA 01752
(508) 858-3125


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