Re: [PATCH 4/5] readahead: backoff on I/O error

[Ingo Oeser]

Hi Fengguang,

On Friday, 9. June 2006 10:08, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> Backoff readahead size exponentially on I/O error.
 
> With this patch, retries are expected to be reduced from, say, 256, to 5.
 
1. Would you mind to push this patch to -stable?

Reason: If killing a drive was hit in the field, this should be critical 
	enough.

2. Could you disable (at least optionally) read ahead complety 
  on the first IO error?

Reason: In a data recovery situation (hitting EIO quite often, 
	but not really sequentially) readahead is counter productive.
	E.g. trying to save an old CD with the cdparanoia software.


Regards

Ingo Oeser
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