On Monday August 22, molle.bestefich@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > > > My best guess would be that either you're using an old version of MD > > > that won't try to write to bad blocks, or the spare area on your disk > > > is full, in which case it should be replaced. You can check the > > > status of spare areas on disks with 'smartctl' or similar. > > > > Which version of md tries to rewrite bad blocks in raid5? > > Haven't followed the discussions closely, but I sure hope that the > newest version does. (After all, spare areas are a somewhat old > feature in harddrives..) > Sorry, but no - not yet. Over-writing bad blocks is on my todo list, and will probably happen this year, but it certainly is available yet. NeilBrown - 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