On 04/11/15 19:36, Edward Kuns wrote: > Is there a reasonable way of finding out if a shorter setting is > appropriate for any specific drive? Or would you say in general it's > not worth the effort of trying to find out? Would you expect this > behavior to be any different for an SSD? aiui,what matters is that the linux-level timeout is longer than the disk timeout. Given that, the length of the linux timeout is irrelevant - once the disk times out linux will handle the problem. SSDs - I wouldn't have a clue ... Cheers, Wol -- 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