From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: pg@lxra2.for.sabi.co.UK (Peter Grandi) Subject: Re: read errors not corrected when doing check on RAID6 Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 16:49:27 +0000 Message-ID: <21202.51095.833898.785557@tree.ty.sabi.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Linux RAID List-Id: linux-raid.ids [ ... ] > So here now in the replace function, md decided to correct the > read errors on /dev/sds. Now the pending sectors are down to 7 > on /dev/sds. There were some more errors which were also > corrected, and now the pending count is down to 5. Recovery is > still ongoing. [ ... ] I expected it to correct the read > errors on the drive then, but it seems it didn't. [ ... ] That seems to me a big misunderstanding (or delusion).