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From: Justin Kanoa Withington <kanoa@cfht.hawaii.edu>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bad block remapping
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 15:18:32 -1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CED94E8.9040303@cfht.hawaii.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 15597.36010.276397.345833@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au

Thanks Neil,

No I'm not offering; I don't have the skill to do something like that 
though I would offer emotional support and pizza to anyone who could.

-Kanoa

Neil Brown wrote:

>On Thursday May 23, kanoa@cfht.hawaii.edu wrote:
>
>>I have philosophical question about the RAID software.
>>
>
>I think you are right.
>After a read error, the raid system would do well to:
>  read a few other random blocks on the drive
>    (first/last/middle/superblock) to see if the whole drive is dead
>    or not
>  Updates a failed-read-count in the superblock - abort if this fails
>  regnerate the data from redundant info
>  attempt a re-write
>  On success assume the device has coped.
>
>All we need now is code .... are you offering?
>
>NeilBrown
>
>



      reply	other threads:[~2002-05-24  1:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-24  0:02 bad block remapping Justin Kanoa Withington
2002-05-24  0:43 ` Neil Brown
2002-05-24  1:18   ` Justin Kanoa Withington [this message]

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