On 08/09/10 07:40, Neil Brown wrote:
It looks like you have an ancient kernel - older than April 2010 :-) A patch went in to 2.6.35 and I think some 2.6.34.y which fixed a bug that causes md to drop devices in a degraded RAID6 when it could have fixed the read error. Commit 7b0bb5368a719 So a newer kernel might fix your problem for you.
FYI, at least Debian 5, and RHEL 5 have picked up these patches AFAIK. Tim. -- South East Open Source Solutions Limited Registered in England and Wales with company number 06134732. Registered Office: 2 Powell Gardens, Redhill, Surrey, RH1 1TQ VAT number: 900 6633 53 http://seoss.co.uk/ +44-(0)1273-808309 -- 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