Gabor Gombas (gombasg@xxxxxxxxx) wrote on 20 April 2006 16:35: >On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 09:30:32AM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > >> 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. > >My opinion would be that in the degraded case md should behave as if it >was a single physical drive, and just pass the error to the upper layers. >Then the filesystem can decide what to do (for example, ext3 can be told >to just continue, remount read-only, or simply panic). Agreed. This makes for a nice conceptual separation: raid is only a matter of disk redundancy, independent of the rest. - 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
