If the underlying protocal doesn't support retry and there are some transient errors happening somewhere in our IO stack, we'd like to give an extra chance for IO.
It's true that scsi's sd layer has done SD_MAX_RETRIES(5) retries, but can we really depend on other layers for all robustness?
You are contradicting on your own problem statement as above. Thanks, Anand -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
