> I have found the max number it can get to depends on the disk/mfg. > Older seagates only did 512, newer 1.5's could get to 4096 if I am > remembering correctly. I do know for sure that the newer disk I had > went much higher before the disk itself officially failed. > > I have found disks that aren't reporting re-allocates, but respond > poorly, and seem to be hitting close to the 7 second timeout and cause > large IO pauses, and it is just best to replace the disk when it > starts acting up like that. I'd recommend getting drives that support SCTERC and adjust that to something more sane than 7s. Typically 1.0s is ok, but some run down to 0.1s Vennlig hilsen roy -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (+47) 98013356 http://blogg.karlsbakk.net/ GPG Public key: http://karlsbakk.net/roysigurdkarlsbakk.pubkey.txt -- Hið góða skaltu í stein höggva, hið illa í snjó rita.
