Re: Weird I/O errors with USB hard drive not remounting filesystemreadonly

From: Alan Stern
Date: Tue Nov 24 2009 - 15:13:12 EST


On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, Jan Kara wrote:

> After digging in block layer code, it's as we suspected:
> In case of host error DID_ERROR (which is our case), scsi request is
> retried iff it is not a FAILFAST request which is set if bio is doing
> readahead... So this is explained and everything behaves as it should.
> Thanks everybody involved :).

Okay, very good. There remains the question of the disturbing error
messages in the system log. Should they be supressed for FAILFAST
requests?

Alan Stern

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