On Fri 22 May 2015 03:38:06 PM Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > On Thu, 21 May 2015, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > >> for x in /sys/block/sd[a-z] ; do > >> > >> echo 180 > $x/device/timeout > >> > >> done > > > > I presume it's ok to do that even if the drives do ERC/TLER? Just woke up, > > but my brain seems to be telling me it shouldn't break anything since the > > ERC drives should always return after 7s no matter what... > > Correct, the only downside is that if the drive really dies, it's going to > take longer to detect this. > > I'd rather have longer timeouts to make sure drives never kicked out > because of lack of ERC or something else, than to have drives kicked for > some reason (controller reset, lack of ERC, or something else). > > I really really want to avoid drives being kicked for any other reason > than them really being dead. I'd rather have reads stalled for a few > minutes than this happening. For other use-cases, the requirements may be > different. Yeah, I agree. Especially given this is just my home nas and nas backup setup, It's better to just stall rather than die horribly. -- Thomas Fjellstrom thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
