> In the worst case, the device would be selectable, > but not responding > to data requests which would lead through the device > retry logic and can > take minutes.
that's what I didn't know: that a driver could take minutes (hours???) to decide that a device is not working anymore. Now it comes another question: how can one assume that a drive failure won't take one hour to be acknowledged by the driver? That is: what good is a failover strategy if it takes one hour to start? I'm grateful that the system doesn't write until it knows what is going on, but that can't take that long. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
