Re: end to end error recovery musings

Alan
2007-02-26T17:01:18Z

> 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....