Re: Driver retries disk errors.

[Alan Cox]

On Mer, 2004-09-01 at 16:18, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> If would probably be good to retry "read what you were asked, nothing 
> more" on error, to avoid passing back errors caused by readahead. I 
> suspect this would avoid some issues reading data off CD as well, where 
> one software can read clean and another ends with a short image and error.

Sure but as I understand the block layer currently (and I may be missing
something in the 2.6 code) I can't do that from a driver.

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