On 10/05/12 21:49, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/10/2012 1:54 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> >> I'm glad my RAID1 worked as expected... just hoping I don't encounter >> any read timeouts on the non-TLER drive before my rebuild finishes: > > You have an inverse understanding of ERC. Drives without ERC will retry > forever, or until an upper layer puts a stop to its efforts. Drives > with a 7 second ERC will return a hard error after 7 seconds. > > So the only way you'll get a timeout with your rebuild is if the healthy > drive spends 30 seconds retying a sector read. > I was thinking about the more obscure case - that some other URE followed by an attempt at write access on the good drive fails and it becomes degraded -- 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
