RE: RAID 5 array recovery - two drives errors in external enclosure

["Guy Watkins" <guy@watkins-home.com>]

If you are starting over, maybe you should use RAID6?

} -----Original Message-----
} From: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-raid-
} owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Tom Carlson
} Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 9:18 PM
} To: Majed B.
} Cc: Tim Bostrom; linux-raid
} Subject: Re: RAID 5 array recovery - two drives errors in external
} enclosure
} 
} 2009/9/19 Majed B. <majedb@gmail.com>:
} > If you're going to take all your data out, I would suggest you do a
} > clean start and zero out all the disks to force the remapping of bad
} > sectors, then run smartctl -t offline on all disks and after it's done
} > (it will take A LONG time), create your filesystem on an array and put
} > back your data.
} 
} I'd recommend running the badblocks program on each device to be put
} in the array too, just to be certain that none of your disks are going
} to go horribly flakey on assembly and build... I'm not sure if the
} offline smart test does a full scan like badblocks would.
} 
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