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From: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: Peter Grandi <pg_lxra@lxra.for.sabi.co.UK>,
	Linux RAID <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: raid6 check/repair
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 19:27:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071206182711.GN32704@skl-net.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47570A92.1090307@tmr.com>

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On 15:31, Bill Davidsen wrote:

> Thiemo posted metacode which I find appears correct,

It assumes that _exactly_ one disk has bad data which is hard to verify
in practice. But yes, it's probably the best one can do if both P and
Q happen to be incorrect. IMHO mdadm shouldn't do this automatically
though and should always keep backup copies of the data it overwrites
with "good" data.

Andre
-- 
The only person who always got his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-06 18:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-21 13:25 raid6 check/repair Thiemo Nagel
2007-11-22  3:55 ` Neil Brown
2007-11-22 16:51   ` Thiemo Nagel
2007-11-27  5:08     ` Bill Davidsen
2007-11-29  6:04       ` Neil Brown
2007-11-29  6:01     ` Neil Brown
2007-11-29 19:30       ` Bill Davidsen
2007-11-29 23:17       ` Eyal Lebedinsky
2007-11-30 14:42         ` Thiemo Nagel
     [not found]           ` <1196650421.14411.10.camel@elara.tcw.local>
     [not found]             ` <47546019.5030300@ph.tum.de>
2007-12-03 20:36               ` mailing list configuration (was: raid6 check/repair) Janek Kozicki
2007-12-04  8:45                 ` Matti Aarnio
2007-12-04 21:07               ` raid6 check/repair Peter Grandi
2007-12-05  6:53                 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2007-12-05  9:00                 ` Leif Nixon
2007-12-05 20:31                 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-12-06 18:27                   ` Andre Noll [this message]
2007-12-07 17:34                   ` Gabor Gombas
2007-11-30 18:34       ` Thiemo Nagel
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2007-11-21 13:45 Thiemo Nagel
2007-12-14 15:25 ` Thiemo Nagel
2007-11-15 15:28 Leif Nixon
2007-11-16  4:26 ` Neil Brown

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