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From: John Robinson <john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Re-map disk sectors in userspace when rewriting after read errors
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:44:00 +0100
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On 18/09/2009 12:35, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
[...]
> If you run a check on a degraded array and the check runs into errors it
> can't recover from, I assume that the disk will get kicked off and
> you'll have a nonfunctional array instead.

No, I don't think so - at least with RAID-1, md doesn't drop the array 
on errors on the one remaining functional disc, on the grounds that some 
data is better than none, but I don't know whether the array gets 
switched to read-only or what the situation is with other RAID levels.

Cheers,

John.