From: Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>
Cc: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
Marcus Overhagen <marcus.overhagen@gmail.com>,
kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, tj@kernel.org
Subject: Re: SATA hdd refuses to reallocate a sector?
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 08:11:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201306260811.15421.linux@rainbow-software.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1372215862.2806.54.camel@dabdike>
On Wednesday 26 June 2013, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 08:18 -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
> > And the SCSI stack in Linux has rather atrocious error handling.
> > It lumps multiple requests together, and can fail the entire lot even
> > if only a single sector is bad.
>
> That's rather misleading. SCSI doesn't lump anything together; it
> handles the requests it was passed. For reads and writes through the
> page cache, block will aggregate in the elevators, but you avoid that by
> not using the page cache (O_DIRECT or SG_IO).
Yes, it works fine with O_DIRECT - that's why hdd_realloc reads
sector-by-sector when an error was detected. I'd also like to disable read
retries but that does not seem to be possible.
> For devices which report failing sectors correctly data up to the failed
> sector is returned and the request is shortened and retried from the
> failed sector on. If we get a second failure at the beginning (where
> the previous bad sector was), then we give up.
>
> James
--
Ondrej Zary
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-26 6:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-23 10:19 SATA hdd refuses to reallocate a sector? Pavel Machek
2013-06-23 11:21 ` Pavel Machek
2013-06-23 13:16 ` Marcus Overhagen
2013-06-23 19:00 ` Pavel Machek
2013-06-23 21:27 ` Mark Lord
2013-06-23 21:51 ` Pavel Machek
2013-06-23 22:35 ` Mark Lord
2013-06-24 6:19 ` Marcus Overhagen
2013-06-24 12:28 ` Pavel Machek
2013-06-24 7:14 ` Ondrej Zary
2013-06-24 11:06 ` Pavel Machek
2013-06-24 12:18 ` Mark Lord
2013-06-26 3:04 ` James Bottomley
2013-06-26 6:11 ` Ondrej Zary [this message]
2013-06-29 18:47 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2013-06-29 23:02 ` Mark Lord
2013-06-30 14:34 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2013-06-30 16:49 ` Pavel Machek
2013-07-01 13:28 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2015-04-30 19:01 ` Pavel Machek
2013-06-24 12:48 ` Zdenek Kaspar
2013-06-24 13:08 ` Ondrej Zary
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