linux-kernel - Re: Infinite retries reading the partition table

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Date:	Wed, 6 Dec 2006 11:48:27 +0100 (CET)
From:	Etienne.Vogt@...pm.fr
To:	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>
cc:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Infinite retries reading the partition table



On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:

> That looks like it prevents the IO error.  But why was an IO error causing
> an infinite loop?   What piece of code was initiating the retries?

Maybe it's related to the infinite domain validation retry loop problem
I reported on linux-scsi a few weeks ago ?

-- 
 		Etienne Vogt (Etienne.vogt@...pm.fr)
 		Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, France
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