Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:48:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:47:01 -0500 Received: from mailout01.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.80]:41413 "EHLO mailout01.sul.t-online.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:46:06 -0500 Date: 06 Dec 2001 20:12:00 +0200 From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk cc: torvalds@transmeta.com Message-ID: <8EK0gp-1w-B@khms.westfalen.de> In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: Linux/Pro -- clusters X-Mailer: CrossPoint v3.12d.kh7 R/C435 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Organisation? Me?! Are you kidding? In-Reply-To:

X-No-Junk-Mail: I do not want to get *any* junk mail. Comment: Unsolicited commercial mail will incur an US$100 handling fee per received mail. X-Fix-Your-Modem: +++ATS2=255&WO1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds) wrote on 06.12.01 in : > Some of them are effectively turned off - the format timeout was increased > to 2 hours to make sure that it basically never triggers. And I recently found out the hard way that wasn't enough, and ended up cludging a utility to patch a running kernel (don't ask) to increase that timeout. Turned out the drive needed a little over three hours to tell me it couldn't format. Frankly, format should really have NO timeout. Or possibly a user- specified one. MfG Kai - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/