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crash vs. power drop

crash vs. power drop

Posted Sep 15, 2009 12:52 UTC (Tue) by Cato (subscriber, #7643)
In reply to: crash vs. power drop by nye
Parent article: POSIX v. reality: A position on O_PONIES

I believe that TLER (time limited error recovery) is one characteristic of enterprise drives - simply means fewer retries so that the RAID controller or OS gets a drive failure more quickly, and knows to use redundancy to complete the I/O.


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