On Thursday 14 April 2016 16:22:19 you wrote: > On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 04:03:59PM +0300, Dag Nygren wrote: > You should replace such disks. RAID survival depends on healthy disks. I know, but this is very secondary use, no I am really not worried about it. > > But I was expecting the MD layer to try to fixup that sector > > automatically by using the data from the other drive ?? > > That should happen if the read error is encountered by the md layer, > and the disk reports this error properly, and the other disk has data > and not a bad block at the same place... That is what I expected. You can see the proper error from the disk in dmesg and it is accessed otherwise there would be no dmesg error. > However the drive may encounter bad sectors on its own, for example > early in the boot process before Software RAID is active, or when > running periodic self-tests or other internal monitoring of the drive. Yep, but not the case here. There is a real access and a real error in the log, but no rewrite... Should the md layer report anything? Is there a parameter that might be off? Best Dag -- 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