RE: Raid5 Construction Question

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On Thursday August 19, bugzilla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Why does it check the parity and not just write the correct parity?

Because on a mostly-in-sync array, checking the parity is faster than
correcting the parity.

> Does it log the count that were wrong, or anything?

no, but one day it will.

> 
> And does your new --update=resync option do the same thing?

It just marks an in-sync array as not-in-sync so that a resync is
forced.  It will do the same check-and-correct process for raid5.

NeilBrown
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