From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sujit Karataparambil Subject: Re: RAID5 reconstruction ? Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 18:22:40 +0530 Message-ID: <921ca19c0905300552g7697e4c6of8c357d9b456ad0d@mail.gmail.com> References: <37d33d830905292244w685499b3h391aa2ca7a5b1ad@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <37d33d830905292244w685499b3h391aa2ca7a5b1ad@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: SandeepKsinha Cc: Linux RAID List-Id: linux-raid.ids Are you talking about hardware raid or software raid. I donot think hardware raid can by itself do much of the book keeping. Software Raid I think is different from having raid 0 to raid 1 to raid 2 to raid 3 to raid 4 to raid 5. hope this is correct information. Thanks, On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:14 AM, SandeepKsinha wrote: > Hi all, > > Say If I have a RAID 5 array of 50GB of five disks of 10GB each. > > I have data of 5GB. When a disk fails and replaced with a spare disk. > Will the reconstruction happen only for the 5GB allocated disk blocks > or it will happen for the whole disk size. > > > Is it possible to make =A0reconstruction intelligent enough to keep i= t optimized ? > > Thanks. > > -- > Regards, > Sandeep. > > > > > > > =93To learn is to change. Education is a process that changes the lea= rner.=94 > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid"= in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at =A0http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > --=20 -- Sujit K M -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html