Michael Evans <mjevans1983@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Why doesn't the kernel issue a pessimistic alternate 'read' path (on > the other drives needed to obtain the data) if the ideal method is > late. It would be more useful for time-sensitive/worst case buffering > to be able to customize when to 'give up' dynamically. That is a verry good question. I look forward to seeing patches for this from you. :) I think it isn't done because nobody has bothered to write the code yet but maybe I'm wrong and it would make the code too complicated. MfG Goswin -- 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