From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Justin Piszcz Subject: Re: mismatch_cnt questions Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 10:31:09 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <17898.45673.573800.56474@notabene.brown> <482826F0.2070405@tuxes.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Return-path: In-Reply-To: <482826F0.2070405@tuxes.nl> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Bas van Schaik Cc: Neil Brown , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Mon, 12 May 2008, Bas van Schaik wrote: > Neil Brown wrote: >> On Sunday March 4, pernegger@gmail.com wrote: >> >> (...) >>> 3) Is the "repair" sync action safe to use on the above kernel? Any >>> other methods / additional steps for fixing this? >>> >> >> "repair" is safe, though it may not be effective. >> "repair" for raid1 was did not work until Jan 26th this year. >> Before then it was identical in effect to 'check'. >> > Sorry to dig up such an old thread, but I'd like to know since when > (which kernel version) "repair" (recompute parity, assuming data is > consistent) for raid5 is effective? Good question.