Thanks Neil, No I'm not offering; I don't have the skill to do something like that though I would offer emotional support and pizza to anyone who could. -Kanoa Neil Brown wrote: >On Thursday May 23, kanoa@cfht.hawaii.edu wrote: > >>I have philosophical question about the RAID software. >> > >I think you are right. >After a read error, the raid system would do well to: > read a few other random blocks on the drive > (first/last/middle/superblock) to see if the whole drive is dead > or not > Updates a failed-read-count in the superblock - abort if this fails > regnerate the data from redundant info > attempt a re-write > On success assume the device has coped. > >All we need now is code .... are you offering? > >NeilBrown > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
