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From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
To: Molle Bestefich <molle.bestefich@gmail.com>
Cc: "Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)" <raziebe@gmail.com>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: when does it become faulty disk
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:45:36 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42B6C880.6020305@tls.msk.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <62b0912f05061912103ad3c459@mail.gmail.com>

Molle Bestefich wrote:
> Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro) wrote:
> 
>>I have managed to make the kernel remove a disk
>>from my raid even if this raid is "/" . I did it by adding a line
>>in ata_scsi_error that remove the ata disk from the raid array.
>>This means that when the first error ocurrs on a disk It is removed
>>from the array.
>>Well, this is not the best thing to do..
>>Question is :
>>When does a disk become faulty ?
> 
> 
> When trying to read sectors from a disk and the disk fails the read:
>  1.)  Read the data from the other disks in the RAID and
>  2.)  Overwrite the sectors where the read error occur.

Note: this is NOT how current linux softraid code works, it's
how it *supposed* to work.  And right now, linux raid code
kicks a drive out of the array after *any* error (read or
write), without trying to "understand" what happened.

/mjt

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-06-20 13:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-18 11:47 when does it become faulty disk Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
2005-06-19 19:10 ` Molle Bestefich
2005-06-20  6:43   ` raz ben jehuda
2005-06-20  7:55     ` Molle Bestefich
2005-06-20 10:09       ` raz ben jehuda
2005-06-20 13:45   ` Michael Tokarev [this message]
2005-06-20 15:35     ` raz ben jehuda
2005-06-21  1:53 ` More tales of horror from the linux (HW) raid crypt Harry Mangalam
2005-06-22 19:33   ` Mike Hardy
2005-06-22 20:16     ` Harry Mangalam
2005-06-22 20:38       ` Jure Pecar
2005-06-22 21:33         ` Harry Mangalam
2005-06-22 23:15           ` SMART, was " Konstantin Olchanski
2005-06-22 23:32             ` Harry Mangalam
2005-06-22 23:35             ` Mike Hardy
2005-06-22 21:09       ` Brad Dameron
2005-06-22 21:43         ` Harry Mangalam
2005-06-22 22:00           ` Ming Zhang
2005-06-22 22:11             ` John Madden
2005-06-22 22:26               ` Ming Zhang
2005-06-23  0:20               ` bdameron
2005-06-22 22:45             ` Harry Mangalam
2005-06-22 23:05               ` Ming Zhang
2005-06-23  0:25               ` bdameron
2005-06-23  0:14             ` bdameron
2005-06-23  0:49               ` Ming Zhang
2005-06-23  3:05                 ` Guy
2005-06-23 12:31                   ` Ming Zhang
2005-06-23 13:03                     ` Guy
2005-06-23 13:17                       ` Andy Smith
2005-06-23 13:19                       ` Ming Zhang
2005-06-22 23:54       ` Jon Lewis
2005-06-22 20:54     ` Dan Stromberg
2005-06-22 21:15       ` Brad Dameron

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