On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > (please CC me on replies). > > I've been in several situations where it would have been helpful to be able > to refresh weak sectors by rewriting the whole md raid component device, > without the need to increase array failure risk through a fail+remove+add > cycle for the component device. > > How difficult would it be to implement a "refresh" as a Linux md driver > sync_action, pigging back on "check" ? > > Are there any drawbacks to write-refreshing component devices? > Why is "check" insufficient? If it trips over any bad sectors it will re-write them. -- Dan -- 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
