On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 10:30:08PM +0200, David Woodhouse wrote: > It isn't that the media is slow; the max timeout is based on the SLA > for certain classes of "fabric" outages. Linux copes *really* badly > with I/O errors, and if we can make the timeout last long enough to > cover the switch restart worst case, then users are a lot happier.
Gotchya. So the default timeout is sufficient under normal operation, but temporary intermittent outages may exceed it. It'd be a real dissappointment if the command times out with an error anyway after waiting for the extended time, but we ought to cover the worst case time for a successful completion.
