On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 11:17 +0300, Majed B. wrote: > > I have a RAID5 array of 8 disks running degraded on 7. One of the 7 > has bad sectors and the one that is not in the array also had bad > sectors. If you run a check on a degraded array and the check runs into errors it can't recover from, I assume that the disk will get kicked off and you'll have a nonfunctional array instead. Not something I'd do in your situation. I'll try to finish my patch ASAP. It should be possible to convince the code to read from the offline disk when absolutely necessary, but no guarantee that I'll get that in right away. (On second thought, this only matters for RAID6.) -- 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
