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From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
To: st0ff@npl.de
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Feature Request
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:28:10 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B7154DA.90405@msgid.tls.msk.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B712034.1000600@gmx.net>

Stefan *St0fF* Huebner wrote:
[]
> Now imagine any RAID with some kind of redundancy, reading/writing
> data.  One of the disks finds out "I cannot correctly read/write the
> requested sector", starts its error correction, hits the respective
> ERC-timeout and reports back a media error or unrecoverable error.  Now
> mdraid would drop the disk.
> 
> But actually the data of the sector can be recreated through the
> existing redundancy.  Wouldn't it be a smart thing if the mdraid
> recreates the sector and just tried to write it again?  And after a good
> amount of failed retries it may well drop the disk.

This is exactly what md layer is doing.  On failed _read_ it tries to
reconstruct data from other disk drives and writes the reconstructed
data back to the drive where read failed.  If the _write_ fails md will
drop the disk.

/mjt

  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-09 12:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-09  8:43 Feature Request Stefan *St0fF* Huebner
2010-02-09 12:28 ` Michael Tokarev [this message]
2010-02-09 14:19   ` Stefan Hübner
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2024-06-20 12:58 Clement Sello Tsetsa
2024-06-20 13:29 ` rsbecker
2016-10-27 21:55 feature request John Rood
2016-10-27 22:01 ` Stefan Beller
2016-10-27 22:05   ` John Rood
2016-10-27 22:24     ` John Rood
2016-10-27 22:27       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-27 22:48         ` John Rood
2016-10-27 22:51           ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-27 23:16             ` John Rood
2016-10-27 22:30 ` Stefan Beller
2016-10-27 22:44   ` John Rood
2016-10-27 22:46     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-27 23:24     ` David Lang
2016-10-28  8:49       ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-10-28 12:54       ` Philip Oakley
2013-02-18 18:52 Jay Townsend
2013-02-18 19:54 ` James Nylen
2013-02-18 20:45   ` Jeff King
2013-02-19  3:26     ` Drew Northup
2013-02-19 22:27     ` Shawn Pearce
2012-10-16 11:36 Angelo Borsotti
2012-10-16 12:15 ` Andrew Ardill
2012-10-16 17:27   ` Angelo Borsotti
2012-10-16 23:30     ` Sitaram Chamarty
2012-10-17  0:00     ` Andrew Ardill
2012-10-16 13:34 ` Christian Thaeter
2008-09-09  9:49 Feature Request l5ynlwlcyku9kvaqc2jf.j.HadVabVobs
2005-04-14 16:50 feature request `VL
2005-04-14 18:18 ` Taylor, Grant
2005-04-14 18:37   ` Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhães
2005-04-14 18:52     ` Taylor, Grant
2003-08-23  7:51 Pentium 4m kernel 2.4.21 Martin Klinkigt (multimedia-test)
2003-08-23  9:49 ` Viktor Radnai
2003-08-23 10:50   ` Feature request (was: Pentium 4m kernel 2.4.21) Viktor Radnai
2003-08-26 23:10     ` Dominik Brodowski
2003-08-27 17:16       ` Feature request Viktor Radnai
2003-08-28 13:50         ` Dominik Brodowski
2003-08-28 16:04           ` Daniel Thor Kristjansson

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