On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 09:09:33AM +0100, David Greaves wrote:
However you seem to ignore the part of the threads that demonstrate my understanding of the issue when I talk about mirroring from the failing drive and the need to have md resort to the remaining components/parity in the event of a failed block precisely to avoid md failing the mirroring process and leaving you stuck :)
It was not 'ignored', in the sense i did not read or understand it: I do agree that hot-sparing of a failing drive should be a native feature of md I was just pointing out what were, imho, errors in your reasoning. L. -- Luca Berra -- bluca@xxxxxxxxxx Communication Media & Services S.r.l. /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN X AGAINST HTML MAIL / \ -- 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