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We're improving our handling of write errors - we shouldn't write degraded data just because a write failed once, we should retry it (on other devices, if possible). But for this to work, we need to kick devices out when they're only returning errors - otherwise those retries will loop infinitely. This adds a configurable timeout - if writes are failing for too long, we'll set that device read-only. In the future we should also implement more tracking and another knob for an "allowed error rate", so that we can kick out drives that are acting "unhealthy". Another thing we'll want is a mechanism (likely in userspace) for bringing a device back in after a transient error - perhaps a cable was jiggled, or there was a controller reset. After transient errors we also need a mechanism to walk (from the journal) recent btree updates that weren't flushed to that device and treat them as "degraded", since unflushed data may well not have been written. Out of scope for this patch, but becoming relevant. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
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