On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 7:28 AM, Benny Lofgren <bl-li...@lofgren.biz> wrote: > It's a matter of uptime. > > The indicated behaviour, that the system more or less freezes when > encountering a simple sector read error is indeed disturbing. For > example, my own reasons for using mirroring are exclusively so that a > system can remain online and operational in case of a disk failure.
If that's why you're investigating, I'll save you some time. The disk retry code will basically lock the system up while it's retrying. If you don't like it, send a patch.
