From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Robinson Subject: Re: Find mismatch in data blocks during raid6 repair Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:38:38 +0100 Message-ID: <4FE315CE.9090201@anonymous.org.uk> References: <10900468.MPSjVn2C3J@peanut> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <10900468.MPSjVn2C3J@peanut> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Robert Buchholz Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 20/06/2012 18:41, Robert Buchholz wrote: [...] > When repairing a full raid6 with no missing drives (raid-devices=n+2), a > single inconsistent data block could be detected Yes, it could. See Neil Brown's blog post as to the many reasons why this isn't implemented: http://neil.brown.name/blog/20100211050355 Cheers, John.