> On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:52:48 +1000 > NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 21:23:31 -0700 "Kenn" <kenn@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> > I have a raid5 array that had a drive drop out, and resilvered the >> wrong >> > drive when I put it back in, corrupting and destroying the raid. I >> > stopped the array at less than 1% resilvering and I'm in the process >> of >> > making a dd-copy of the drive to recover the files. >> >> I don't know what you mean by "resilvered". > > At first I thought the initial poster just invented some peculiar funny > word of his own, but it looks like it's from the ZFS circles: > https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=resilver+zfs > @Kenn; you probably mean 'resync' or 'rebuild', but no one ever calls > those processes 'resilver' here, you'll get no google results and > blank/unknowing/funny looks from people when using that term in relation > to mdadm. Good point, I am a very old unix user and my RAID terminology hasn't been properly updated since college. Resilver is mentioned here in wikipedia for disk mirroring http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_mirroring and I've always used the word but it's not in the RAID page and I'll switch to "rebuilding". Thanks, Kenn > > -- > With respect, > Roman > -- 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
