Sorry could you tell us what you are looking for? On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 6:58 PM, SandeepKsinha <sandeepksinha@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I > > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Sujit Karataparambil <sjt.kar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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. >> > > I am taking about mdraid. > >> 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 >> > > > > -- > Regards, > Sandeep. > > > > > > > “To learn is to change. Education is a process that changes the learner.” > -- -- 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