Matthias Urlichs wrote:
In fact, as I said, there may be problems lurking on other disks which I just haven't found yet (how often do you read all 5TB of your data?), which means that a feature like this is the difference between being able to recover and certain data loss, RAID-6 nonwithstanding.
This is why scheduled "check" or "repairs" should be done - see Documentation/md.txt in the kernel source for details.
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