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From: John Robinson <john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk>
Subject: Re: sector I/O error cause disk to be "faulty" in raid5
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 09:53:50 +0100
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On 06/06/2011 14:28, hank peng wrote:
> Hi, everybody:
> In current raid5 implementation, if a r/w error occured at some
> specific sectors on a disk, the disk will be labeled as "faulty".
> Here, I want to say in most cases, this is failure indication of those
> sectors not the whole disk. Should we make some changes to be more
> reasonable?

It's already on the wishlist as a bad block map.

Cheers,

John.