Song, > We have a use case where HDDs are regularly power on/off to perserve power. > When a drive is being removed, we often see errors like > > [ 172.803279] I/O error, dev sda, sector 3137184 > > These messages are confusing for automations that grep dmesg, as they look > very similar to real HDD error. > > Solve this issue with a new block state BLK_STS_OFFLINE. After the change, > the error message looks like > > [ 172.803279] device offline error, dev sda, sector 3137184 > > so that the automations won't confuse them with real I/O error. Looks OK to me. Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
