Re: [PATCH] proactive raid5 disk replacement for 2.6.11

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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
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