Neil Brown wrote: [trim Q re how resync fixes data] > For raid1 we 'fix' and inconsistency by arbitrarily choosing one copy > and writing it over all other copies. > For raid5 we assume the data is correct and update the parity. Can raid6 identify the bad block (two parity blocks could allow this if only one block has bad data in a stripe)? If so, does it? This will surely mean more value for raid6 than just the two-disk-failure protection. -- Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) <http://samba.org/eyal/> attach .zip as .dat - 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
