On Friday October 13, dan@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Good to hear. > > I think when I first built my RAID (a few years ago) I did some research on > this; > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=bad+block+replacement+capabilities+mdad > m > > And found stories where bit errors were an issue. > http://www.ogre.com/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=7 > > After your email, I went out and researched it again. Eleven months ago a > patch to address this was submitted for RAID5, I would assume RAID6 > benefited from it too? Yes. All appropriate raid level support auto-overwrite of read errors. NeilBrown - 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