[PATCH] md: improvements to raid5 handling of read errors

Two refinements to the 'attempt-overwrite-on-read-error' mechanism.
1/ If the array is read-only, don't attempt an over-write.
2/ If there are more than max_nr_stripes read errors on a device with
   no success, fail the drive.  This will make sure a dead
   drive will be eventually kicked even when we aren't trying
   to rewrite (which would normally kick a dead drive more quickly.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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NeilBrown 2005-11-08 21:39:31 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 007583c925
commit ba22dcbf10
3 changed files with 21 additions and 8 deletions

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@ -134,6 +134,9 @@ struct mdk_rdev_s
* only maintained for arrays that
* support hot removal
*/
atomic_t read_errors; /* number of consecutive read errors that
* we have tried to ignore.
*/
};
typedef struct mdk_personality_s mdk_personality_t;