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Date:      Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:42:23 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, current@freebsd.org, William Josephson <freebsd-current@morphisms.net>
Subject:   Re: ATA FLUSHCACHE
Message-ID:  <200704241942.40874.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20070424084409.GA98777@keltia.freenix.fr>
References:  <20070424051420.GA84831@mero.morphisms.net> <200704241554.12605.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20070424084409.GA98777@keltia.freenix.fr>

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On Tuesday 24 April 2007 18:14, Ollivier Robert wrote:
> The main problem that I've found is that with a single disk
> configuration, there is a timeout then the system recovers but with a
> dual (or maybe more) disks involved, multiple/current timeouts make
> the system panic and that is not nice.
>
> I suspect that changing the timeout may just hide the real problem.

Hmm, it is a non fatal error for gjournal, I'm kind of surprised it's a=20
fatal one for ZFS..

If the cache flush really failed (eg due to a stuffed disk) then there=20
really is a problem, but IMO it is likely this is going to be caught by=20
a read or a write operation very soon.

If it is a transient error then panicing seems to be about the worse=20
response :)

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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