From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robin Hill Subject: Re: RAID-5 degraded mode question Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:12:38 +0000 Message-ID: <20091216211237.GA16981@cthulhu.home.robinhill.me.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="M9NhX3UHpAaciwkO" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids --M9NhX3UHpAaciwkO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed Dec 16, 2009 at 12:20:04PM -0800, Tirumala Reddy Marri wrote: > All, > I have question on degraded mode RAID-5 operation md driver. If I > understand reads from the degraded mode md would cause parity > calculations or rebuild of data happens for every request.=20 >=20 For pretty much every read, yes - some will end up with all the data on the remaining disks, but most will need to recalculate from parity. > Also as soon as disk failed md drivers marks that drive as faulty and > continue operation in degraded mode right ? Is there a way to get out > the degraded mode without adding spare drive. Assuming we have 5 disk > system with one failed drive. >=20 I'm not sure what you want to happen here. The only way to get out of degraded mode is to replace the drive in the array (if it's not actually faulty then you can add it back, otherwise you need to add a new drive). What were you thinking might happen otherwise? Cheers, Robin --=20 ___ =20 ( ' } | Robin Hill | / / ) | Little Jim says .... | // !! | "He fallen in de water !!" | --M9NhX3UHpAaciwkO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkspTUUACgkQShxCyD40xBJg2gCgt+2xwdFx/AHU1MKd3Ja1AZeN otAAnRM25OXRFy1tjueMIp4loOB6tNp7 =GRA0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --M9NhX3UHpAaciwkO--