Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] scsi: Detailed I/O errors

Mike Snitzer
2011-01-27T22:35:45Z

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