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Subject: Re: iscsi client hangs performing I/O on a dead target
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Andrew Snow wrote:
> Danny Braniss wrote:
>> freebsd likes to
>> panic if a disc goes away, so don't hold your breath for a solution so=
on.
>=20
>=20
> You hit the nail on the head.  This is going to be a increasingly bad
> problem as we continue pushing in this of networked storage.
>=20
> It would be REALLY nice, if an I/O fails, to simply have the process
> attempting the I/O to be killed, instead of bringing the machine to its=

> knees and locking up or panic the kernel.

There have been some commits recently related to this problem - you
could try running 8-CURRENT and see if it's addressed.


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