On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 01:04 +0200, Piergiorgio Sartor wrote: > you might be unaware of the repeated neverending > discussions about this topic. yup :) > It is *possible* to do it, but, as of today, it > cannot do it. > I mean, there is no functionality, in the RAID-6, to > detect and correct those errors using the available > double parity. Is this the same for raid 5 or specifically a raid 6 issue on linux ? I had assumed that with my raid5 array, if the raid check finds an error it will attempt to rewrite back to the disk, and then read again, and carry on if everything is ok. Best Regards Jools Jools Wills -- IT Consultant Oxford Inspire - http://www.oxfordinspire.co.uk - be inspired t: 01235 519446 m: 07966 577498 jools@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
