From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bas van Schaik Subject: Re: mismatch_cnt questions Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 13:16:00 +0200 Message-ID: <482826F0.2070405@tuxes.nl> References: <17898.45673.573800.56474@notabene.brown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <17898.45673.573800.56474@notabene.brown> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Neil Brown Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Neil Brown wrote: > On Sunday March 4, pernegger@gmail.com wrote: > > (...) >> 3) Is the "repair" sync action safe to use on the above kernel? Any >> other methods / additional steps for fixing this? >> > > "repair" is safe, though it may not be effective. > "repair" for raid1 was did not work until Jan 26th this year. > Before then it was identical in effect to 'check'. > Sorry to dig up such an old thread, but I'd like to know since when (which kernel version) "repair" (recompute parity, assuming data is consistent) for raid5 is effective? -- Bas