Re: [PATCH] scsi_lib.c: continue after MEDIUM_ERROR

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Eric D. Mudama wrote:

Actually, it's possibly worse, since each failure in libata will generate 3-4 retries. With existing ATA error recovery in the drives, that's about 3 seconds per retry on average, or 12 seconds per failure. Multiply that by the number of blocks past the error to complete the request..

It really beats the alternative of a forced reboot
due to, say, superblock I/O failing because it happened
to get merged with an unrelated I/O which then failed..
Etc..

Definitely an improvement.

The number of retries is an entirely separate issue.
If we really care about it, then we should fix SD_MAX_RETRIES.

The current value of 5 is *way* too high.  It should be zero or one.

Cheers
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