I'm testing out iSCSI at the moment, creating a ZFS volume out of iSCSI 
devices.  I've found that if I disconnect an iSCSI device, file I/O and the 
"zpool status" command will hang for a little over 5 minutes before the system 
finally realises something is wrong.

Is there any way I can change this?  Ideally I'd like it to fail within 5-10 
seconds.

Despite a few days of searching, the only thing I can find vaguely relvant is 
this:  
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/storage-discuss/2006-May/001646.html.  

Towards the bottom of that post, it mentions a scsi_pkt timeout of 60 seconds,  
and states that the disk driver will recover from outages of up to 90 seconds, 
but will fail if you leave the interface down long enough.  It also says that 
if you have fastfail enabled, for clustering etc, the I/O on the path will fail 
right away.

It sounds like fast-fail might be what I need, but I can't find anything about 
what it is, or how to configure it.  Can anybody help?
 
 
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