On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 18:24 +0100, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > Timeouts were discussed when we added queue_if_no_path. and we made the > decision to implement this in userspace not the kernel. > > Make sure that your daemon doesn't die - or that something monitors it > and relaunches it if it does. Uh, huh. And what about when (not if) _that_ fails? (For one thing, what if the stuckness caused by the queued I/O prevents the binary from being successfully pulled in from storage?) Granted, this is a belt-and-suspenders kind of thing that most won't need, but when you need it, you _need_ it. -- Frank Mayhar 310-460-4042 -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel