linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH 0/3] scsi: Add Hyper-V logical block provisioning quirks

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Message-ID: <A70AC0C1B7E7FD478A6BF19705461AA01109B5@IMBER.smb.curriegrad2004.ca>
Date:	Mon, 20 Oct 2014 22:19:31 -0700
From:	"Jeff Leung" <jleung@...networks.ca>
To:	"Sitsofe Wheeler" <sitsofe@...il.com>,
	"KY Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>
Cc:	"James Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	"Christoph Hellwig" <hch@...radead.org>,
	"Haiyang Zhang" <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
	"Christoph Hellwig" <hch@....de>, "Hannes Reinecke" <hare@...e.de>,
	<linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<devel@...uxdriverproject.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 0/3] scsi: Add Hyper-V logical block provisioning quirks

> Is it OK to replace a scsi_level of SCSI-2 with SCSI_SPC_3? Additionally is it also OK to force
> SCSI_SPC_3 on Hyper-V 2008?

I would patch the driver accordingly to force the SPC-3 flag.

For a Win2k8 host, I don't know what the side effects are, so it's safe to say it's not a good idea to
Force SCSI_SPC_3