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From: Lane Brooks <lbrooks@mit.edu>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Multiple Disk Failure Recovery
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 22:29:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45319CFC.4050708@mit.edu> (raw)

I have a RAID 5 setup with one spare disk.  One of the disks failed, so 
I replaced it, and while it was recovering, it found some bad sectors on 
another drive (unreadable and uncorrectable SMART errors).  This 
generated a fail event and shut down the array.

When I restart the array with the force command, it starts the recovery 
process and dies when it gets to the bad sectors, so I am stuck in an 
infinite loop.

I am wondering if there is a way to cut my losses with these bad sectors 
and have it recover what it can so that I can get my raid array back to 
functioning.  Right now I cannot get a spare disk recovery to finish 
because these bad sectors.  Is there a way to force as much recovery as 
possible so that I can replace this newly faulty drive?

Thanks
Lane

             reply	other threads:[~2006-10-15  2:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-15  2:29 Lane Brooks [this message]
2006-10-15  6:35 ` Multiple Disk Failure Recovery David Rees
2006-10-15 12:16   ` Roger Gammans

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