Partitions and end-to-end protection

[Martin K. Petersen]

>>>>> "Christoph" == Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead.org> writes:

>> The driver did it this way because we need a disk allocated before we
>> can subscribe to block integrity extensions.

The gendisk is a prerequisite by virtue of the integrity profile hanging
off of it. What I don't understand is why you do this capacity
zeroing/revalidate business in the first place?

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering