ATA FLUSHCACHE

[Daniel O'Connor]

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 
fatal one for ZFS..

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

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

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