On Sunday September 3, dean@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, Clive Messer wrote: > > > This leads me to a question. I understand from reading the linux-raid archives > > that the current behaviour when rebuilding with a single badblock on another > > disk is for that disk to also be kicked from the array. > > that's not quite the current behaviour. since 2.6.14 or .15 or so md will > reconstruct bad blocks from other disks and try writing them. it's only > when this fails repeatedly that it knocks the disk out of the array. "when rebuild" md/raid5 cannot reconstruct bad blocks because the array is degraded, so a read error is immediately fatal. NeilBrown -- VGER BF report: H 3.53108e-11 - 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
