On 10/05/2018 05:04 PM, Phil Turmel wrote: > On 10/5/18 4:33 PM, Andrew Engelbrecht wrote: >> Hello RAID devs, >> >> I read about potential bugs with RAID badblocks. How can I disable this >> feature on my machines? >> >> https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/The_Badblocks_controversy >> >> I'll happily post a working method to that wiki. > > Shut the array down, then re-assemble it with --update=no-bbl. > > Phil > Hello Phil, The version 3.3 and 4.1-rc1 versions of the mdadm man page say the following: The no-bbl option will cause any reservation of space for a bad block list to be removed. If the bad block list contains entries, this will fail, as removing the list could cause data corruption. Is there a way to disable this feature if bad blocks are already in use, so we could depend upon the drive itself to remap blocks internally? Thanks! : ) Andrew
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