Re: MD/RAID time out writing superblock

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>]

On Mon, 14 Sep 2009, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Oooh, another possibility is the above continuous IDENTIFY tries.
> Doing things like that generally isn't a good idea because vendors
> don't expect IDENTIFY to be mixed regularly with normal IOs and

IMHO that means the kernel should be special-casing such commands, then (i.e
quiesce drive, do command, quiesce driver, start IO again), probably
rate-limiting it for good effect.

This is the kind of stuff that userspace should NOT have to worry about
(because it will get it wrong and cause data corruption eventually).

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