Re: end to end error recovery musings

Ric Wheeler
2007-02-26T16:45:42Z

Alan wrote:
>> I think that this is mostly true, but we also need to balance this against the
>> need for higher levels to get a timely response. In a really large IO, a naive
>> retry of a very large write could lead to a non-responsive system for a very
>> large time...
>
> And losing the I/O could result in a system that is non responsive until
> the tape restore completes two days later....

Which brings us back to a recent discussion at the file system workshop on being
more repair oriented in file system design so we can survive situations like
this a bit more reliably ;-)

ric