Why RHEL filesystem goes readonly when SAN disk becomes unavailable for sometime?

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Issue

  • Why Red Hat Enterprise Linux file system goes read-only when SAN disk becomes unavailable for sometime?
  • How to increase SCSI device timeout value
  • How to change device timeout value

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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