On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 18:12 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Depending on the hardware you can still access a different disk while > another one is reseting. But since there is no timeout in md it won't > try to use any other disk while one is stuck. > > That is exactly what I miss. > > MfG > Goswin > - That is exactly what I've been talking about. Can md implement timeouts and not just leave it to the drivers? I can't believe it but last night another array hit the dust when 1 of the 12 drives went bad. This year is just a nightmare for me. It brought all the network down until I was able to mark it failed and reboot to remove it from the array. 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