[dm-devel] [PATCH 7/7] Hold all write bios when errors are handled

Mikulas Patocka mpatocka at redhat.com
Thu Nov 26 17:58:20 UTC 2009


> > If you ask the admin always if primary leg failed and wait for his action, 
> > you lose fault-tolerance --- the computer would wait until the admin does 
> > an action.
> 
> Well, we are talking one time admin help at reboot [actually activation
> time] if and only if the "state of the mirror" changed during reboot!
> This is not applicable at run time. Most of the time, dmeventd will have
> a chance to change the mirror to linear anyway.

You can ask the admin about failed on reboot --- but why do it if it can 
continue on its own? (unless both legs fail)

Mikulas




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