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 - 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