Re: Driver retries disk errors.

[Alan Cox]

On Mer, 2004-09-01 at 16:28, Romano Giannetti wrote:
> Just a question from a kernel-almost-illiterate. Could this explain the
> behavior of my laptop yesterday, reading a damaged DVD? I had to wait almost
> one full minute of retry until being able to kill xine... 

Thats the block layer. Its actually hard to fix the kill -9 case.

> If maintaining the retries, it could be nice to allow at least kill -9
> between them. I do not know if that's foolish and/or impossible, so please
> do not bash too hard... 

Things like Xine are precisely the cases where you want retry turned off
by the application - if the sector is bad then you want to skip when
playing movies, while you don't want to skip while writing out your
database

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