On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 12:33 +0200, Samuel Tardieu wrote: > I agree with Doug: nothing prevents you from using md above very slow > drivers (such as remote disks or even a filesystem implemented over a > tape device to make it extreme). Only the low-level drivers know when > it is appropriate to timeout or fail. > > Sam
The problem is when some of these drivers are just not smart enough to keep themselves out of trouble. Unfortunately I've been bitten by apparently too many of them. I'll repeat my plea one more time. Is there a published list of tested combinations that respond well to hardware failures and fully signals the md code so that nothing hangs? If not, I would like to see what people that have experienced hardware failures and survived them are using so that such a list can be compiled. Alberto - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
