On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 11:38 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Well, if that is what the block device layer is defined to do then that > is what the block layer does. It makes sense from the point of view of > a disk, there block layer has to translate and redo, so if the block > layer is defined to do that, why not rely on it? > I'm just hung up on when we can safely mark the array as not dirty. At a minimum this means raid needs a "I have an ignored-write-failure in-flight, awaiting retry from upper layer" state. -- 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
