[illumos-Developer] Changing sd_io_time to 8?

[Joerg Schilling]

"Garrett D'Amore" <garrett at damore.org> wrote:

> > If you lower this timeout, you increase the chance for aborting a command that 
> > needs to be done anyway. As the sd driver has own retries, this may cause 
> > things to fail that don't need to and in addition, you will need more time for 
> > the whole operation (including sd retries).
>
> This just underscores for me how terrible an idea it was to make
> everything appear as a SCSI *disk*.  sd and sr should never have been
> merged.  Sadly its too late to easily do anything about it.

What do you believe would have been better in case that the merge had not  been 
done?

Jörg

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