On Wednesday May 30, alberto@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > After thinking about your post, I guess I can see some logic behind > not failing on the read, although I would say that after x amount of > read failures a drive should be kicked out no matter what. When md gets a read error, it collects the correct data from elsewhere and tries to write it to the drive that apparently failed. If that succeeds, it tries to read it back again. If that succeeds as well, it assumes that the problem has been fixed. Otherwise it fails the drive. 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