On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, Robin Bowes wrote: > I'm running RAID6 instead of RAID5+1 - I've had a couple of instances > where a drive has failed in a RAID5+1 array and a second has failed > during the rebuild after the hot-spare had kicked in. if the failures were read errors without losing the entire disk (the typical case) then new kernels are much better -- on read error md will reconstruct the sectors from the other disks and attempt to write it back. you can also run monthly "checks"... echo check >/sys/block/mdX/md/sync_action it'll read the entire array (parity included) and correct read errors as they're discovered. -dean - 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
