Michael Tokarev <mjt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > That all to say: yes indeed, this lack of "smart error handling" is > a noticieable omission in linux software raid. There are quite some > (sometimes fatal to the data) failure scenarios that'd not had happened > provided the smart error handling where in place. I also agree that "redundancy per block" is probably a much better idea than "redundancy per disk". Probably needs a "how hot are you?" primitive, though! The read patch I posted should get you over glitches from sporadic read errors that would otherwise fault the disk, but one wants to add accunting for such things and watch them. Peter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html