Neil Brown wrote: > The one problem with this approach is that if there is a read error on > /dev/suspect while data is being copied to /dev/new, you lose. > > Hence the requested functionality which I do hope to implement for > raid456 and raid10 (it adds no value to raid1). > Maybe by the end of this year... it is on the roadmap. Neil, If you have ideas about how this should be accomplished then outlining them may provide a reasonable starting point for those new to the code; especially if there are any steps that you may clearly see that would help others to make a start. I've posted this request a few times but the md code is sufficiently overwhelming that I haven't attempted a solution. David -- "Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it work in a cartoon once..." -- 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