Neil Brown (neilb@xxxxxxx) wrote on 17 April 2006 09:30: >The easiest thing to do when you get an error on a drive is to kick >the drive from the array, so that is what the code always did, and >still does in many cases. >It is arguable that for a read error on a degraded raid5, that may not >be the best thing to do, but I'm not completely convinced. I don't see how it could be different. If the array is degraded and one more disk fails there's no way to obtain the information, so the md device just fails like a single disk. - 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
