Andrew Snow wrote:
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> Danny Braniss wrote:
>> freebsd likes to
>> panic if a disc goes away, so don't hold your breath for a solution so=
on.
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>=20
>=20
> You hit the nail on the head.  This is going to be a increasingly bad
> problem as we continue pushing in this of networked storage.
>=20
> It would be REALLY nice, if an I/O fails, to simply have the process
> attempting the I/O to be killed, instead of bringing the machine to its=

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> knees and locking up or panic the kernel.

There have been some commits recently related to this problem - you
could try running 8-CURRENT and see if it's addressed.