>>>>> "Doug" == Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: Doug> This isn't an md problem, this is a low level disk driver Doug> problem. Yell at the author of the disk driver in question. If Doug> that driver doesn't time things out and return errors up the Doug> stack in a reasonable time, then it's broken. Md should not, Doug> and realistically can not, take the place of a properly written Doug> low level driver. I agree with Doug: nothing prevents you from using md above very slow drivers (such as remote disks or even a filesystem implemented over a tape device to make it extreme). Only the low-level drivers know when it is appropriate to timeout or fail. Sam -- Samuel Tardieu -- sam@xxxxxxxxxxx -- http://www.rfc1149.net/ - 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
