Re: resync'ing - what is going on

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On 18:54, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
> And what happens if a discrepancy is found? Which of the 2 copies are the
> good one?

Nobody can tell. IIRC, the md code picks the one with the smallest drive
id.

> For raid5 and raid6 I could imagine that the parity blocks were cheked.

For raid5 you still can't tell which of the copies (if any) is
good. For raid6 you can tell under the assumption that exactly one
drive has bad data.  However, the raid6 code currently does not try
to fix up errors.

Have a look at the archives for more..
Andre
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