Re: Software RAID when it works and when it doesn't

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On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 16:04 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:

> I think what you really want is to notice how long the drive and driver 
> took to recover or fail, and take action based on that. In general "kick 
> the drive" is not optimal for a few bad spots, even if the drive 
> recovery sucks.

The problem is that the driver never comes back and the whole
array hangs, waiting forever. That's why a timeout within the
md code is needed to recover from these type of drivers.

Alberto

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