Thanks for your reponse and feedback, >> If the disk has no write cache the following errors are being logged. >> * sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found >> * sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through >> >> Lower the severity from error to info. >> The absence of a write cache should not be treated as an error. >> There are many portable drives that don't have a write cache. > >We have it at error level because many consumer devices lie about having >caches and we would like the users to know that their data integrity may >be at risk.
There are users that get confused by these errors thinking something is broken. Would you consider to use warning level instead or do you still prefer error? BR Per
