Re: Linux/Pro -- clusters

Kai Henningsen
2001-12-06T20:48:39Z

torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds) wrote on 06.12.01 in <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112060958450.10625-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>:

> Some of them are effectively turned off - the format timeout was increased
> to 2 hours to make sure that it basically never triggers.

And I recently found out the hard way that wasn't enough, and ended up
cludging a utility to patch a running kernel (don't ask) to increase that
timeout. Turned out the drive needed a little over three hours to tell me
it couldn't format.

Frankly, format should really have NO timeout. Or possibly a user-
specified one.

MfG Kai