Re: Upperlimit for bwait()

Warner Losh writes:

> One might also wonder why 30s is the timeout for most of the commands.

There are Hierarchial Storage Systems where 30s is not enough:
You issue what you think is a disk-read, but somewhere behind the
scenes, an overloaded tape-robot has no empty drives.

But otherwise: 100% with Warner here.


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