Chris Worley wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Maurice Hilarius <maurice@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I read this today: >> http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=162 >> >> Would anyone who knows enough about this care to comment? > > We need disks continuously scanned in spare cycles, and offline the > drives (or remap the sectors) as soon as an error is found. > > Also, when rebuilding an array, don't stop due to a read failure. > mark the sector as bad and complete the rebuild. > > Waiting for a drive to fail has been too late to recover the array, in > my experience. Agreed - and I think another huge gap is that when you lose a block you really should be able to find out what file was affected. Doable on ext3 but not (AFAIK) xfs. Though that is a filesystem issue, not a RAID issue. David -- 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
