On Sat, 15 Jan 2005, Peter T. Breuer wrote: > In particular you seem to be trying to do things synchronusly, when > that's not at all necessary, or perhaps desirable. The user will get a Well, no, I only tried to summarize what needed to be done, not the way to accomplish it in the best way. Your summary reflecting my own attempt at a summary seems better, but it seems we both agree on the merit of the concept of trying to write to a sector that has given a read error, if we can recreate the data from other sources such as mirror or parity. If this fails, fail the disk. Anyhow, log what happened. -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@xxxxxxxxx - 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