Alan wrote:
When libata reports a MEDIUM_ERROR to us, we *know* it's non-recoverable,
as the drive itself has already done internal retries (libata uses the
"with retry" ATA opcodes for this).
This depends on the firmware. Some of the "raid firmware" drives don't
appear to do retries in firmware.
I think that even for these devices, the actual drives behind the controller
will do retries. In any case, it would be reasonable to be able to set this
retry/no-retry via /sys to handle exceptional cases...
But meanwhile, we still have the original issue too, where a single stray
bad sector can blow a system out of the water, because the mid-layer
currently aborts everything after it from a large merged request.
Thus the original patch from this thread. :)
Agreed
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