Re: [PATCH] RAID-6 check standalone md device

[Bas van Schaik <bas@tuxes.nl>]

On 04/02/2011 08:13 AM, Piergiorgio Sartor wrote:
> Hi Bas,
>
> On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 12:02:20AM +0100, Bas van Schaik wrote:
>> Dear Piergiorgio,
>>
>> On 03/31/2011 07:53 PM, Piergiorgio Sartor wrote:
>>> please find below the promised patch for the
>>> RAID-6 check, which allows to pass only the
>>> MD device, start and length.
>>> (...)
>> Recently, I repeatedly ran into block mismatches in my 8x2TB RAID-6
>> array (and a corrupted EXT3 filesystem). I've been playing with the idea
>> (as expressed in my posts to the linux-raid list in the last month) to
>> extend the RAID-6 check in order to report more verbose information
>> about a block mismatch, which might help to identify the failing hard drive.
>>
>> Do I understand correctly that your recent patches implement exactly
>> this feature?
> yes, that's the target.
That's great! The code can currently only be found in GIT, right? I'll
try to fetch it from there and compile the user-space binaries. Of
course I'll report any suggestions back to you, including patches if I
feel confident enough...

Thanks,

  Bas