-----Original Message----- From: linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Brown Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 9:22 AM To: linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: A few questions regarding RAID5/RAID6 recovery > You are not alone in these concerns. A couple of months ago there was a > long thread here about a roadmap for md raid. The first two entries are > a "bad block log" to allow reading of good blocks from a failing disk, > and "hot replace" to sync a replacement disk before removing the failing > one. Being on a roadmap doesn't mean that these features will make it > to md raid in the near future - but it does mean that there are already > rough plans to solve these problems. > <http://neil.brown.name/blog/20110216044002> Thank you David, this explains a lot. I hope we'll see this some day implemented. Can you comment on my first question too please? Basically i'm just curious to know if there is a way to stop and restart the rebuilding process (and change/re-create the array in between them). Btw, i read somewhere, that "--stop", then "--create --assume-clean" on an array works only on v0.9 superblocks, because v1.x overwrites existing data during create. It doesn't make sense for me - but i'm not sure -, so is this true? If not, then is it enough to use the same suberblock version for "--create" to make this work without data loss? Thanks, Peter -- 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
