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Message-Id: <200901051300.09169.rob@landley.net>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 13:00:07 -0600
From: Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
To: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>,
Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@...oo.com>,
Duane Griffin <duaneg@...da.com>, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu,
Martin MOKREJŠ <mmokrejs@...osome.natur.cuni.cz>,
kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, mtk.manpages@...il.com,
rdunlap@...otime.net, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: document ext3 requirements
On Monday 05 January 2009 05:19:13 Alan Cox wrote:
> You could of course just learn to use the functions the kernel provides.
> If you want to recover disk blocks without retrying you can do that via
> SG_IO. If you want to adjust the timeout and retry levels you can do that
> too via sysfs.
Good to know, but "my laptop hard drive just died" is not the optimal time to
learn these sorts of things.
> Alan
Rob
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