Hi Richard,
> So you have to wait for the sd (or other) driver to > timeout the request. By > default, this is on the order of minutes. Meanwhile, > ZFS is patiently awaiting a status on the request. For > enterprise class drives, there is a limited number > of retries on the disk before it reports an error. > You can expect responses of success in the order of > 10 seconds or less. After the error is detected, ZFS > can do something about it. > > All of this can be tuned, of course. Sometimes that > tuning is ok by default, sometimes not. Until recently, the > biggest gripes were against the iscsi client which had a > hardwired 3 minute error detection. For current > builds you can tune these things without recompiling. > -- richard So are you suggesting that tuning the sd driver's settings to timeout sooner if using a consumer class drive wouldn't be wise for perhaps other reasons? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
