On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 05:31:53PM -0800, dean gaudet wrote: > logging raid A while ago, Neil posted thoughts on a journal design that grew out of discussion with Stephen Tweeedie: http://lwn.net/2002/0523/a/jbd-md.php3 > partially failed disks > > a common failure mode for a disk is to develop a local read error, a > few sectors which are unreadable. presently any such error causes md > to mark the disk as faulty and remove it from the raid. there are two > unfortunate aspects of this approach: EVMS offers a "badblock layer", though I agree it would be nice to have this in the RAID code. [Of course, the DM folks want to make MD go away...] Regards, Bill Rugolsky - 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
