On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, Jan Kara wrote: > After digging in block layer code, it's as we suspected: > In case of host error DID_ERROR (which is our case), scsi request is > retried iff it is not a FAILFAST request which is set if bio is doing > readahead... So this is explained and everything behaves as it should. > Thanks everybody involved :). Okay, very good. There remains the question of the disturbing error messages in the system log. Should they be supressed for FAILFAST requests? Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html