Re: Implementing low level timeouts within MD

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On Friday October 26, alberto@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I've been asking on my other posts but haven't seen
> a direct reply to this question:
> 
> Can MD implement timeouts so that it detects problems when
> drivers don't come back?

No.
However it is possible that we will start sending the BIO_RW_FAILFAST
flag down on some or all requests.  That might make drivers fail more
promptly, which might be  good thing.  However it won't fix bugs in
drivers and - as has been said elsewhere on this thread - that is the
real problem.

NeilBrown

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