From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: hank peng Subject: sector I/O error cause disk to be "faulty" in raid5 Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 21:28:22 +0800 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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? -- The simplest is not all best but the best is surely the simplest!