On 2003-04-29T10:06:14, Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@SteelEye.com> said: > Well, this particular retry problem does not exist in 2.4. And in > general, as far as software RAID is concerned, 2.4 is a lot better...I > know, at least with raid1, you can fail a device just about anytime you > want (with lots of write activity, during a resync, etc.) and as often > as you want, and it doesn't hang... This depends on the lower level device. qlaxxxx takes about 30s to report the unplugging of a cable as an IO error; so access to the md device blocks for 30s... Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de> -- SuSE Labs - Research & Development, SuSE Linux AG "If anything can go wrong, it will." "Chance favors the prepared (mind)." -- Capt. Edward A. Murphy -- Louis Pasteur - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html