Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:

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I don't think the interface you're suggesting is a good one.  Do you?

I think if it's applicable to SCSI at all it is fine.  If it is not, then
I think we need to make do with the interface we are given.  I do not think
we should hold up a feature for libata sysfs integration.

Well, I guess we'll have to agree to disagree here and leave the
decision to James and Jeff.

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I can assert that I think ALPM is a good idea,
because I've never had a report of it causing problems.  Windows has 
been using this feature for a very long time - and you have to admit that
they have a pretty large market share.  Nobody is complaining about ALPM
increasing device malfunction, so unless you have proof it seems insane
to nak due to this. 

Is ALPM enabled by default?  How do they deal with the performance
degradation?

I believe so, but I'm obviously not privvy to their implementation details.

It would be *really* great if we can find more about how they do it.
How and when it's enabled and on which systems.  Is it possible to find
this out?

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tejun