Re: [Drbd-dev] [PATCH 05/30] drbd: Introduce new disk config option rs-discard-granularity

[Bart Van Assche]

On 04/25/2016 05:10 AM, Philipp Reisner wrote:
> As long as the value is 0 the feature is disabled. With setting
> it to a positive value, DRBD limits and aligns its resync requests
> to the rs-discard-granularity setting. If the sync source detects
> all zeros in such a block, the resync target discards the range
> on disk.

Hello Phil,

Can you explain why rs-discard-granularity is configurable instead of 
e.g. setting it to the least common multiple of the discard 
granularities of the underlying block devices at both sides?

Thanks,

Bart.