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From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
To: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: dgilbert@interlog.com, James Bottomley <jbottomley@suse.de>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, jaxboe@fusionio.com,
	michaelc@cs.wisc.edu, agk@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] scsi: Detailed I/O errors
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:35:26 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110127223525.GH14951@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D358130.6040508@suse.de>

On Tue, Jan 18 2011 at  7:01am -0500,
Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> wrote:

> On 01/18/2011 12:33 PM, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> 
> This patchset is primarily for fixing up multipathing,
> which has the habit of retrying failed I/Os on the
> next path. For some errors this is just pointless
> (eg MEDIUM ERROR), for some errors this is the desired
> behaviour (namely transport errors), and for others
> this is positively damaging (persistent reservation
> failures).
> Just plain EIO simply don't cover the whole range :-)
> 
> > 
> > BTW might "vulgo" be "ergo" [Latin: therefore]?
> > 
> Nope. Correct etymology is from 'sermo vulgaris',
> ie the language of the common people.
> But maybe I should remove it for the next
> round to avoid confusion.

Is a new round even needed given there haven't been any code issues
raised against v4?

James, what are your thoughts on this patchset?  Would be great to get
this in scsi-misc for 2.6.39

Please advise,
Mike

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-27 22:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-18  9:13 [PATCH v4 0/3] differentiate between I/O errors Hannes Reinecke
2011-01-18  9:13 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] scsi: Detailed " Hannes Reinecke
2011-01-18 11:33   ` Douglas Gilbert
2011-01-18 12:01     ` Hannes Reinecke
2011-01-27 22:35       ` Mike Snitzer [this message]
2011-01-27 22:41         ` James Bottomley
2011-01-27 22:54           ` Mike Snitzer
2011-01-28  8:12             ` Jens Axboe
2011-01-28 13:11           ` Alasdair G Kergon
2011-01-18  9:13 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] dm mpath: propagate target errors immediately Hannes Reinecke
2011-01-18  9:13 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] block: improve detail in I/O error messages Hannes Reinecke
2011-01-27 22:51   ` Mike Snitzer

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