Hmm, so I guess I'm luckier since I run RAID5? (or not because I have 2 bad disks? :p) When do you expect to have a working application done, by the way? On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Matthias Urlichs <matthias@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 20:02 +0300, Majed B. wrote: >> Out of curiosity, how will you find the sectors/blocks that >> reconstruct a certain bad sector? Is the data spread to the same block >> number on all disks? > > Yes. It's a byte-level operation, actually. > > The only part that's moderately tricky is, on RAID6, to determine which > partition the Q drive is. Fortunately, mdadm already contains (almost) > all the necessary logic. > > -- Majed B. -- 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