From: Richard Scobie <richard@sauce.co.nz>
To: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Cc: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to avoid complete rebuild of RAID 6 array (6/8 active devices)
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:54:52 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <487BE74C.8050004@sauce.co.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080714225816.GS4314@kiste.smurf.noris.de>
Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> In fact, as I said, there may be problems lurking on other disks which I
> just haven't found yet (how often do you read all 5TB of your data?),
> which means that a feature like this is the difference between being
> able to recover and certain data loss, RAID-6 nonwithstanding.
This is why scheduled "check" or "repairs" should be done - see
Documentation/md.txt in the kernel source for details.
Regards,
Richard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-14 23:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-25 6:37 How to avoid complete rebuild of RAID 6 array (6/8 active devices) Dave Moon
2008-06-25 16:13 ` Andre Noll
2008-06-27 10:40 ` Neil Brown
2008-06-29 21:58 ` Bill Davidsen
2008-07-14 10:44 ` Matthias Urlichs
2008-07-14 16:14 ` David Greaves
2008-07-14 16:54 ` David Lethe
2008-07-14 22:58 ` Matthias Urlichs
2008-07-14 23:54 ` Richard Scobie [this message]
2008-07-15 0:05 ` Matthias Urlichs
2008-07-15 14:24 ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
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