"Doug Ledford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" wrote:
>If you're going to do the work, then make the timeout on a per controller
>basis (I suppose it should actually be on a per device basis when I think
>about it). Maybe add it to the sd disk structs. Then the low level
driver
>can say "Hey, this is a hardware raid logical volume, I'll make it have a
>timeout of 60 seconds" or they can say "this is a passthrough device, 10
>seconds is a plenty long timeout". I for one would take the aic7xxx
driver
>and modify the timeout values back down to about 8 seconds on it's
devices.
>That's more than enough time for any command it sends to complete. Then
the
>hardware raid controller drivers are free to do what they want and they
can
>also timeout logical volumes different from pass through disk devices
>(assuming that they are supported and are treated differently on a
particular
>brand of hardware raid controller).
What about external RAID enclosures attached through the aic7xxx driver?
This would impose an 8 second timeout on them, and they can take
considerably more time if they are in the process of transferring I/O and
cache to the backup controller.
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