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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Driver retries disk errors.
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 15:46:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1094049961.2777.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ch4oq3$fse$1@gatekeeper.tmr.com>

On Mer, 2004-09-01 at 16:18, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> If would probably be good to retry "read what you were asked, nothing 
> more" on error, to avoid passing back errors caused by readahead. I 
> suspect this would avoid some issues reading data off CD as well, where 
> one software can read clean and another ends with a short image and error.

Sure but as I understand the block layer currently (and I may be missing
something in the 2.6 code) I can't do that from a driver.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-01 15:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-30 16:39 Driver retries disk errors Rogier Wolff
2004-08-30 17:46 ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-08-30 18:26   ` James Courtier-Dutton
2004-08-30 22:25     ` Rogier Wolff
2004-08-31 11:38     ` Alan Cox
2004-09-02 16:23       ` Eric Mudama
2004-08-31 15:16     ` Bill Davidsen
2004-08-30 22:17   ` Rogier Wolff
2004-08-31 11:45 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-31 13:45   ` Andre Hedrick
2004-08-31 13:54   ` Rogier Wolff
2004-08-31 14:12     ` Alan Cox
2004-08-31 15:56       ` Erik Mouw
2004-08-31 15:13         ` Alan Cox
2004-08-31 17:00           ` Erik Mouw
2004-08-31 16:12             ` Alan Cox
2004-09-01 15:18               ` Bill Davidsen
2004-09-01 14:46                 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-09-01 18:54                   ` Bill Davidsen
2004-09-01 15:28               ` Romano Giannetti
2004-09-01 14:44                 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-01 23:14                   ` Rogier Wolff
2004-09-02  9:29                     ` Alan Cox
2004-09-02 10:54                       ` Rogier Wolff
2004-09-02 14:30                       ` John Stoffel
2004-09-02 14:59                         ` Alan Cox
2004-09-02 16:07                           ` John Stoffel
2004-09-02 16:26                   ` Eric Mudama
2004-08-31 22:55           ` Christer Weinigel
     [not found] <fa.d48te6f.1ol6tbb@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.eti1vu1.2nqlj5@ifi.uio.no>
2004-08-31  0:17   ` Robert Hancock
2004-09-01 23:04     ` Rogier Wolff

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