Re: raid5 failed while rebuiling - classical problem

[Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>]

Janek Kozicki <janek_listy@wp.pl> writes:

> fsck finished, fixed a heft of bad inodes, and now everything seems to be
> fine. So now I'm going to upgrade all that, use latest kernel, then switch
> to raid6.
>
> I tested /dev/hda with badblocks read-write tests, and now it works fine,
> which is kind of disappointing, because it caused to me so much trouble.

If that wrote to the failed block it might cause the bad space to be
reallocated, which is by design what modern disks do.

> Its warranty is going to expire in 3 months, but since it works fine now I
> don't think that I could get it replaced. I guess that it will "really die"
> after its warranty will expire...

Depends entirely on your vendor; I have never had any refusal to replace a
disk after the first bad block, reallocated on write on not.  Those errors are
tracked and can be reported by the drive, incidentally, so it has not just
vanished away.

        Daniel

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