On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 18:45 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > I'm not sure the timeouts are the problem, even if md did its own > timeout, it then needs a way to tell the driver (or device) to stop > retrying. I don't believe that's available, certainly not everywhere, > and anything other than everywhere would turn the md code into a nest of > exceptions. > If we loose the ability to communication to that drive I don't see it as a problem (that's the whole point, we kick it out of the array). So, if we can't tell the driver about the failure we are still OK, md could successfully deal with misbehaved drivers. Alberto - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
