From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "John Stoffel" Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/18] md: occasionally checkpoint drive recovery to reduce duplicate effort after a crash Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:26:49 -0500 Message-ID: <18836.23513.23378.858964@stoffel.org> References: <20090212031009.23983.14496.stgit@notabene.brown> <20090212031010.23983.74842.stgit@notabene.brown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090212031010.23983.74842.stgit@notabene.brown> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: NeilBrown Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids >>>>> "NeilBrown" == NeilBrown writes: NeilBrown> '16' is a fairly arbitrary number. But we don't really NeilBrown> have any good way to judge how often is acceptable, and it NeilBrown> seems like a reasonable number for now. Maybe once an hour as well? I don't have good numbers here, but just a feeling that I'd hate to waste more than hour if possible. But hey, this is a big improvement no matter what. John