[stgt] [BUG] Tgt-1.0.8 exited unexpectedly

FUJITA Tomonori fujita.tomonori at lab.ntt.co.jp
Wed Oct 20 05:40:26 CEST 2010


On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 23:20:29 +0900 (JST)
Hirokazu Takahashi <taka at valinux.co.jp> wrote:

> The following page is also helpful. It tells why they want to introduce
> 4kb sector.
> http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/are-you-ready-for-4k-sector-drives/731

Thanks for the pointer.


> I guess the way of correcting error is out of the specification of SATA
> because the specification just define the interface.

If you want end-to-end data protection, you need the interface in the
spec like SCSI dif. It enables the users of storage (application, file
systems, etc) to store checksum. Otherwise, even if your disk
internally does checksuming, it's still possible that you could hit
silent data corruption.
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