On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, John Hendrikx wrote: > I agree with the original poster though, I'd really love to see Linux > Raid take special action on sector read failures. It happens about 5-6 > times a year here that a disk gets kicked out of the array for a simple > read failure. A rebuild of the array will fix it without a trace, but a > rebuild takes about 3 hours :) One thing that's well worth doing before simply fail/remove/add the drive with the bad sector, is to do a read-only test on the other drives/paritions in the rest of the set. That way you won't find out half-way through the resync that other drives have failures, and then lose the lot. It adds time to the whole operation, but it's worth it IMO. Gordon - 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
