[ale] who is eating my drive

[Pat Regan]

On Tue, 31 May 2011 17:49:10 -0400
Greg Clifton <gccfof5 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Obviously, if any of the remaining RAID member disks had a
> non-recoverable read, the swap would be hosed, but I was just
> thinking that if it was marginally readable and the disc had to make
> several read attempts to get a good read, the time required for that
> process could cause a time out, even though the data could be
> recovered with DD or such.

In a situation like this it probably doesn't make any difference if the
read/write timed out in swap or inside a file system.  The kernel would
probably have thought the disk was bad an panicked either way.

Pat