>>>>> "Dag" == Dag Nygren <dag@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: Dag> Anyway Neil had the opinion that mdadm could do it outside the Dag> kernel My concern is wrt. making sure that there are no unfortunate discrepancies between our block device read/write request timeouts and any error recovery timeouts values set in device firmware. MD kicking disks is just a symptom that there's a generic issue in this area. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- 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