On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 07:03:08AM +0100, Gordon Henderson 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 can't answer your question, just make the comment: Hurrah for RAID-6! Agreed, although I'm still only just in the testing phase with this array. It isn't in production yet, and I don't have any important data on the array that I don't have backups of. > I presume the restarted rebuild went OK? Yep, it had just finished when I just woke up, so now it's back from double-degraded to degraded. Just in time for the third disk to start failing, which will probably fail during the rebuild of the second failed disk after I swap that one out in a couple of minutes.. > > [*] probably an entirely defective batch of 14 Samsung Spinpoint > > 500G disks > > Lets hope not... Keep checking those SMART values... Failed disk #2 still reports a SMART status of "PASSED".. - 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
