Are you talking about hardware raid or software raid. I donot think hardware raid can by itself do much of the book keeping. Software Raid I think is different from having raid 0 to raid 1 to raid 2 to raid 3 to raid 4 to raid 5. hope this is correct information. Thanks, On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:14 AM, SandeepKsinha <sandeepksinha@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > Say If I have a RAID 5 array of 50GB of five disks of 10GB each. > > I have data of 5GB. When a disk fails and replaced with a spare disk. > Will the reconstruction happen only for the 5GB allocated disk blocks > or it will happen for the whole disk size. > > > Is it possible to make reconstruction intelligent enough to keep it optimized ? > > Thanks. > > -- > Regards, > Sandeep. > > > > > > > “To learn is to change. Education is a process that changes the learner.” > -- > 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 > -- -- Sujit K M -- 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
