From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Piergiorgio Sartor Subject: Re: Problems with RAID 6 across 15 disks Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 00:46:44 +0200 Message-ID: <20100401224644.GA2455@lazy.lzy> References: <4BB49E4D.1090809@maxeaves.co.uk> <4BB4A461.5030704@redhat.com> <4BB4A89F.7030707@maxeaves.co.uk> <20100402074325.3ce34e8f@notabene.brown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100402074325.3ce34e8f@notabene.brown> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Neil Brown Cc: max@maxeaves.co.uk, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, Doug Ledford List-Id: linux-raid.ids Hi, > However there is real value in doing that check, at least occasionally. It > catches latent read errors. but since it is not possible to correct those errors, there is no point in doing it... :-) Sorry, I couldn't resist... ;-) bye, -- piergiorgio