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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

  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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