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								What:		/sys/block/<disk>/stat
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								Date:		February 2008
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								Description:
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										The /sys/block/<disk>/stat files displays the I/O
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										statistics of disk <disk>. They contain 11 fields:
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												tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the place
That is "success", "unknown", "through", "performance", "[re|un]mapping"
, "access", "default", "reasonable", "[con]currently", "temperature"
, "channel", "[un]used", "application", "example","hierarchy", "therefore"
, "[over|under]flow", "contiguous", "threshold", "enough" and others.
Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
											
										 
										
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										 1 - reads completed successfully
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										 2 - reads merged
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										 3 - sectors read
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										 4 - time spent reading (ms)
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										 5 - writes completed
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										 6 - writes merged
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										 7 - sectors written
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										 8 - time spent writing (ms)
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										 9 - I/Os currently in progress
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										10 - time spent doing I/Os (ms)
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										11 - weighted time spent doing I/Os (ms)
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										For more details refer Documentation/iostats.txt
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								What:		/sys/block/<disk>/<part>/stat
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								Date:		February 2008
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								Description:
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										The /sys/block/<disk>/<part>/stat files display the
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										I/O statistics of partition <part>. The format is the
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										same as the above-written /sys/block/<disk>/stat
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										format.
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								What:		/sys/block/<disk>/integrity/format
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								Date:		June 2008
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								Contact:	Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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								Description:
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										Metadata format for integrity capable block device.
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										E.g. T10-DIF-TYPE1-CRC.
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								What:		/sys/block/<disk>/integrity/read_verify
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								Date:		June 2008
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										Indicates whether the block layer should verify the
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										integrity of read requests serviced by devices that
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										support sending integrity metadata.
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								What:		/sys/block/<disk>/integrity/tag_size
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								Date:		June 2008
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								Description:
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										Number of bytes of integrity tag space available per
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										512 bytes of data.
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								What:		/sys/block/<disk>/integrity/device_is_integrity_capable
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								Date:		July 2014
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								Description:
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										Indicates whether a storage device is capable of storing
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										integrity metadata. Set if the device is T10 PI-capable.
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								What:		/sys/block/<disk>/integrity/protection_interval_bytes
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								Date:		July 2015
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										Describes the number of data bytes which are protected
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										by one integrity tuple. Typically the device's logical
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										block size.
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								What:		/sys/block/<disk>/integrity/write_generate
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								Date:		June 2008
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										Indicates whether the block layer should automatically
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										generate checksums for write requests bound for
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										devices that support receiving integrity metadata.
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								What:		/sys/block/<disk>/alignment_offset
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								Date:		April 2009
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								Description:
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										Storage devices may report a physical block size that is
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										bigger than the logical block size (for instance a drive
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										with 4KB physical sectors exposing 512-byte logical
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										blocks to the operating system).  This parameter
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										indicates how many bytes the beginning of the device is
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										offset from the disk's natural alignment.
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								What:		/sys/block/<disk>/<partition>/alignment_offset
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								Date:		April 2009
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								Description:
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										Storage devices may report a physical block size that is
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										bigger than the logical block size (for instance a drive
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										with 4KB physical sectors exposing 512-byte logical
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										blocks to the operating system).  This parameter
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										indicates how many bytes the beginning of the partition
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										is offset from the disk's natural alignment.
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								What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/logical_block_size
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								Date:		May 2009
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								Description:
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										This is the smallest unit the storage device can
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										address.  It is typically 512 bytes.
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								What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/physical_block_size
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								Date:		May 2009
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								Description:
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										This is the smallest unit a physical storage device can
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										write atomically.  It is usually the same as the logical
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										block size but may be bigger.  One example is SATA
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										drives with 4KB sectors that expose a 512-byte logical
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										block size to the operating system.  For stacked block
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										devices the physical_block_size variable contains the
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										maximum physical_block_size of the component devices.
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								What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/minimum_io_size
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								Date:		April 2009
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								Description:
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										Storage devices may report a granularity or preferred
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										minimum I/O size which is the smallest request the
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										device can perform without incurring a performance
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										penalty.  For disk drives this is often the physical
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										block size.  For RAID arrays it is often the stripe
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										chunk size.  A properly aligned multiple of
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										minimum_io_size is the preferred request size for
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										workloads where a high number of I/O operations is
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										desired.
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								What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/optimal_io_size
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								Date:		April 2009
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								Description:
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										Storage devices may report an optimal I/O size, which is
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										the device's preferred unit for sustained I/O.  This is
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										rarely reported for disk drives.  For RAID arrays it is
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										usually the stripe width or the internal track size.  A
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										properly aligned multiple of optimal_io_size is the
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										preferred request size for workloads where sustained
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										throughput is desired.  If no optimal I/O size is
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										reported this file contains 0.
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								What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/nomerges
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								Date:		January 2010
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								Description:
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										Standard I/O elevator operations include attempts to
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										merge contiguous I/Os. For known random I/O loads these
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										attempts will always fail and result in extra cycles
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										being spent in the kernel. This allows one to turn off
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										this behavior on one of two ways: When set to 1, complex
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										merge checks are disabled, but the simple one-shot merges
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										with the previous I/O request are enabled. When set to 2,
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										all merge tries are disabled. The default value is 0 -
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										which enables all types of merge tries.
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								What:		/sys/block/<disk>/discard_alignment
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								Date:		May 2011
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								Contact:	Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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								Description:
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										Devices that support discard functionality may
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										internally allocate space in units that are bigger than
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										the exported logical block size. The discard_alignment
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										parameter indicates how many bytes the beginning of the
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										device is offset from the internal allocation unit's
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										natural alignment.
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								What:		/sys/block/<disk>/<partition>/discard_alignment
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								Date:		May 2011
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								Contact:	Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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								Description:
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										Devices that support discard functionality may
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										internally allocate space in units that are bigger than
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										the exported logical block size. The discard_alignment
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										parameter indicates how many bytes the beginning of the
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										partition is offset from the internal allocation unit's
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										natural alignment.
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								What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/discard_granularity
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								Date:		May 2011
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								Contact:	Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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								Description:
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										Devices that support discard functionality may
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										internally allocate space using units that are bigger
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										than the logical block size. The discard_granularity
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										parameter indicates the size of the internal allocation
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										unit in bytes if reported by the device. Otherwise the
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										discard_granularity will be set to match the device's
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										physical block size. A discard_granularity of 0 means
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										that the device does not support discard functionality.
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								What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/discard_max_bytes
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								Date:		May 2011
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								Contact:	Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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								Description:
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										Devices that support discard functionality may have
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										internal limits on the number of bytes that can be
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										trimmed or unmapped in a single operation. Some storage
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										protocols also have inherent limits on the number of
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										blocks that can be described in a single command. The
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										discard_max_bytes parameter is set by the device driver
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										to the maximum number of bytes that can be discarded in
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										a single operation. Discard requests issued to the
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										device must not exceed this limit. A discard_max_bytes
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										value of 0 means that the device does not support
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										discard functionality.
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								What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/discard_zeroes_data
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								Date:		May 2011
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								Contact:	Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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								Description:
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										Devices that support discard functionality may return
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										stale or random data when a previously discarded block
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										is read back. This can cause problems if the filesystem
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										expects discarded blocks to be explicitly cleared. If a
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										device reports that it deterministically returns zeroes
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										when a discarded area is read the discard_zeroes_data
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										parameter will be set to one. Otherwise it will be 0 and
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										the result of reading a discarded area is undefined.
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											2012-09-18 16:19:27 +00:00
										 
									 
								 
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								What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/write_same_max_bytes
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								Date:		January 2012
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								Contact:	Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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								Description:
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										Some devices support a write same operation in which a
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										single data block can be written to a range of several
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										contiguous blocks on storage. This can be used to wipe
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										areas on disk or to initialize drives in a RAID
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										configuration. write_same_max_bytes indicates how many
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										bytes can be written in a single write same command. If
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										write_same_max_bytes is 0, write same is not supported
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										by the device.
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											2016-11-30 20:28:59 +00:00
										 
									 
								 
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								What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/write_zeroes_max_bytes
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								Date:		November 2016
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								Contact:	Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>
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								Description:
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										Devices that support write zeroes operation in which a
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										single request can be issued to zero out the range of
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										contiguous blocks on storage without having any payload
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										in the request. This can be used to optimize writing zeroes
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										to the devices. write_zeroes_max_bytes indicates how many
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										bytes can be written in a single write zeroes command. If
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										write_zeroes_max_bytes is 0, write zeroes is not supported
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										by the device.
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								What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/zoned
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								Date:		September 2016
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								Contact:	Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@hgst.com>
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								Description:
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										zoned indicates if the device is a zoned block device
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										and the zone model of the device if it is indeed zoned.
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										The possible values indicated by zoned are "none" for
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										regular block devices and "host-aware" or "host-managed"
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										for zoned block devices. The characteristics of
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										host-aware and host-managed zoned block devices are
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										described in the ZBC (Zoned Block Commands) and ZAC
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										(Zoned Device ATA Command Set) standards. These standards
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										also define the "drive-managed" zone model. However,
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										since drive-managed zoned block devices do not support
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										zone commands, they will be treated as regular block
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										devices and zoned will report "none".
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								What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/chunk_sectors
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								Date:		September 2016
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								Contact:	Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
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								Description:
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										chunk_sectors has different meaning depending on the type
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										of the disk. For a RAID device (dm-raid), chunk_sectors
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										indicates the size in 512B sectors of the RAID volume
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										stripe segment. For a zoned block device, either
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										host-aware or host-managed, chunk_sectors indicates the
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										size of 512B sectors of the zones of the device, with
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										the eventual exception of the last zone of the device
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										which may be smaller.
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