Re: why does raidframe retry I/O 5 times

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 06:53:03PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> No, it won't. While a drive is retrying, I/O to this drive are
> stalled (obviously). 25 retries stalls I/O to this drive for 25 seconds,
> which stalls anything else which also needs this drive for 25 seconds.

Such as, for example, writing back correct data to cause the drive to
reallocate the sector.

Thor