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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi_lib.c: continue after MEDIUM_ERROR
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:22:04 -0500
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Mark Lord wrote:
> James Bottomley wrote:
>>
>> For the MD case, this is what REQ_FAILFAST is for.
> 
> I cannot find where SCSI honours that flag.  James?

Scratch that thought.. SCSI honours it in scsi_end_request().

But I'm not certain that the block layer handles it correctly,
at least not in the 2.6.16/2.6.18 kernel that I'm working with today.

Cheers