On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 08:22:00PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > >While my RAID6 array was rebuilding after one disk had failed (which > >I replaced), a second disk failed[*], and this caused the rebuild > >process to start over from the beginning. > > > >Why would the rebuild need to start over from the beginning in this > >case? Why couldn't it just continue from where it was? > > I believe it is because raid5 and raid6 share the same error handler > which sets MD_RECOVERY_ERR after losing any disk. It should probably > not set this flag in 1-disk lost raid6 case, but I might be > overlooking something else. Right, so you're saying that it's probably a bug rather than an intentional 'feature'? - 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
