I tried this one yesterday, with 2.6.15 that is. The same thing happened, at the bad block sectors it tried and skipped some but after a minute or two it stopped again. Hmmmz. Krekna 2006/2/14, Mike Hardy <mhardy@xxxxxxx>: > > > Krekna Mektek wrote: > > > The dd actually succeeded, and did finish the job in about one day. > > The badblocks were found after about the first 7 Gigs. > > Is this a 3-disk raid5 array? With two healthy disks and one bad disk? > > If so, then what you really want is a new kernel (2.6.15+? 2.6.14+?) > that has raid5 read-error-handling code in it. Neil just coded that up. > > If it's missing a disk and has a disk with bad sectors, then you've > already lost data, but you could use a combination of smart tests and dd > to zero out those specific sectors (and only those sectors...) then sync > a new disk up with the array... > > -Mike > - 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
