2009/8/13 John Robinson <john.robinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Can or could md be made or configured to try re-adding a device if this > sort of thing happens? After all, a stray cosmic ray or whatever perhaps > shouldn't make one lose redundancy if the drive's actually OK? > > Cheers, > > John. > I think that from the coding point of view md probably could. The more important thing is if it should. The only hard fact is that there was an error while accessing the device. md has no way of telling if it was just a freak accident, or the drive is unreliable from now on. Therefore it does the one safe thing and says "I won't trust you anymore.". If a human being knows better, the said being is free to re-add the drive. Personally I'd hate having a suspicious drive being auto-added in hope it will rebuild and function properly. Because such an option could seem tempting but could and would cause loss of reliability I'd expect bad publicity if it was actually added. Just my 2c. Regards, Paweł -- 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
