"Guy Watkins" <linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > If the disk is suspect, I would expect read errors! > If you have 1 bad block on the suspect disk, this process will fail. > If the logic was built-in to md, then any read errors while replacing could > be recovered from another disk or disks. That is actualy a good point. I didn't even think of that. It would require a true replace mode in all raid levels though and not just internally starting a raid1. MfG Goswin -- 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