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Re: [PATCH 2/3] block: cap atomic write size by PI buffer size constraints

From: "Martin K. Petersen" <mkp@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-09-09 02:44:32

John,
As for atomics on disks with integrity support, we decided not to
support SCSI WRITE ATOMIC (32) - this one is relevant to PI type 2.

But, overall, I'm not sure on this - should we always disable atomics
for any disk PI? Is there a use case for the two together? Martin?
I think we were originally just trying limit scope. The two features are
orthogonal, I don't see any particular reason why we shouldn't try to
support them concurrently.

Type 2 is fairly rare at this point. But it should be fairly trivial to
add support given the existing READ(32)/WRITE(32) plumbing...

-- 
Martin K. Petersen
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