From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Greaves Subject: Re: sync_action repair not reading all sectors? Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:49:41 +0000 Message-ID: <49BF8045.50004@dgreaves.com> References: <49BE3786.50809@dgreaves.com> <87f94c370903160820j6d96ce36t743bfca4a1cfea5e@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <87f94c370903160820j6d96ce36t743bfca4a1cfea5e@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Greg Freemyer Cc: David Lethe , Neil Brown , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Greg Freemyer wrote: > The question was how to keep the raid-5 as fault tolerant as possible > during the drive swapout. I think I'm resigned that that is an on-going feature request :) Actually I'm more worried that a clearly failing drive is not causing any problems for a sync_action = repair. This drive is almost dead and md appears to think it is fine. How come? David -- "Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it work in a cartoon once..."