Re: why does raidframe retry I/O 5 times

To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: why does raidframe retry I/O 5 times
From: Greg Oster <oster%cs.usask.ca@localhost>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 08:50:23 -0600

On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:11:37 +0200
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> wrote:

> Hello,
> why does raidframe retry failed I/O 5 times ? the wd(4) driver already
> retries 5 times, which means a bad block is retried 25 times.
> While drivers are retrying the system is stalled ...

As I recall, for RAIDframe 5 was just chosen as an arbitrary number.  Do
you know if scsi or other disk drivers also retry 5 times too?  

Later...

Greg Oster

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