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Disk-mirroring is a standard feature of basically every OS today. However, these solutions cover built-in disks only.For remotely connected disks eg via FibreChannel or iSCSI the situation changes.
Normally every I/O error is being treated as an fatal error, requiring manual interaction to replace the disk.With remote or SAN-attached disks transient I/O errors might occur, requiring a more careful I/O handling. This is especially true on mainframe, where the standard 'DASD' driver might undergo a rather lengthy recovery routine on errors.
In this talk I will give an overview on the challenges when implementing such a solution and present the 'md_monitor' program for handling transient I/O errors on MD mirror setups.
