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On Thu, March 21, 2013 21:03, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> On 2013-03-20, Carlos Hendson <skyclan@×××.net> wrote: |
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>> Could this be the cause of the stalls during compiles? If it is the |
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>> cause, is it possible for the kernel to detect such failures and report |
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>> them? |
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> I think that as long as the errors are "recovered" they shouldn't |
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> cause problems. The $64 question is whether those errors are |
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> indicating that you're headed for unrecoverable errors (which will |
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> cause problems). If they seem to be increasing in frequency, I'd |
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> probably be a little worried. |
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Consumer harddrives, which I am assuming you are using, will stall |
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indefinitely untill they have fixed the error they are encountering. |
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RAID-drives (With TLER = Time Limited Error Recovery) will return sooner |
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with an error-code which can then be handled by the controller and/or |
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driver. |
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In other words, yes, these can explain the stalls during compiles. |
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