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From: Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How can I power disk off?
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 16:28:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+czFiBLr-6H3T7PE-FC3sSiX1yUm8_4M4d3OO+FRKC1OLyZRg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK2H+eeR8V8fyUazX973HFdx9hsZFKv1F60GHTWy88HzWGyhEA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Paul Hartman
> My worry was that if the mdraid daemon saw one drive gone - either
> when starting to spin down or when one spins up slowly - and if mdraid
> didn't understand that all this stuff was taking place intentionally
> then it might mark that drive as having failed.

Does mdraid even have an awareness of timeouts, or does it leave that
to lower drivers? I think the latter condition is more likely.

I suspect, though, that if your disk fails to spin up reasonably
quickly, it's already failed.

-- 
:wq



  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-06 20:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-06 19:14 [gentoo-user] How can I power disk off? Jarry
2011-10-06 19:27 ` Mark Knecht
2011-10-06 19:34 ` Alex Schuster
2011-10-06 19:38 ` Paul Hartman
2011-10-06 19:44   ` Mark Knecht
2011-10-06 20:03     ` Paul Hartman
2011-10-06 20:21       ` Mark Knecht
2011-10-06 20:28         ` Michael Mol [this message]
2011-10-07  1:04           ` Mark Knecht
2011-10-07  1:14             ` Michael Mol
2011-10-07 13:19               ` Mark Knecht
2011-10-06 20:31         ` David W Noon
2011-10-06 20:56           ` Paul Hartman
2011-10-06 20:49         ` Paul Hartman
2011-10-06 19:41 ` Dale
2011-10-07  1:29 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2011-10-07  2:51   ` Paul Hartman

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