On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:40:44 +0300, Majed B. wrote: > Would anyone suggest a better solution? You should tell ddrescue to log which sectors it failed to copy. You can then recover the missing data by reading the stuff at that offset from the other disks, and XORing the bytes. I plan to write a program which does that (and which also understands RAID1 and RAID6). How long can you survive without your data? -- Matthias Urlichs -- 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