Re: Spares and partitioning huge disks

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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

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