From: Alberto Alonso <alberto@ggsys.net>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>,
Mike Accetta <maccetta@laurelnetworks.com>,
Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Software RAID when it works and when it doesn't
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:50:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1193205003.23414.72.camel@w100> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <471E79A5.5020607@tmr.com>
On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 18:45 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> I'm not sure the timeouts are the problem, even if md did its own
> timeout, it then needs a way to tell the driver (or device) to stop
> retrying. I don't believe that's available, certainly not everywhere,
> and anything other than everywhere would turn the md code into a nest of
> exceptions.
>
If we loose the ability to communication to that drive I don't see it
as a problem (that's the whole point, we kick it out of the array). So,
if we can't tell the driver about the failure we are still OK, md could
successfully deal with misbehaved drivers.
Alberto
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-24 5:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-13 18:40 Software RAID when it works and when it doesn't Alberto Alonso
2007-10-13 22:46 ` Eyal Lebedinsky
2007-10-13 22:50 ` Neil Brown
2007-10-14 5:57 ` Alberto Alonso
2007-10-16 21:57 ` Mike Accetta
2007-10-16 22:29 ` Richard Scobie
2007-10-17 21:53 ` Support
2007-10-18 15:26 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2007-10-19 7:07 ` Alberto Alonso
2007-10-19 15:02 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-10-20 13:45 ` Michael Tokarev
2007-10-20 13:55 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-10-26 16:11 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2007-10-26 16:11 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-10-23 22:45 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-10-24 5:50 ` Alberto Alonso [this message]
2007-10-24 20:04 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-10-24 20:18 ` Alberto Alonso
2007-10-26 16:12 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2007-10-26 17:09 ` Alberto Alonso
2007-10-27 15:26 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-11-02 8:47 ` Alberto Alonso
[not found] ` <471241F8.50205@harddata.com>
2007-10-14 18:22 ` Alberto Alonso
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