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From: "Christian Pernegger" <pernegger@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: ICH7 sata-ahci + software raid warning
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:44:31 +0200
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> Why not just --set-faulty or --fail with mdadm?

This is not about testing, but about real errors.

1) I depend on the md layer to tell me if a disk is faulty ... failing
the disk manually would only help if I already knew the disk was
faulty and just wanted to remove it.

2) If the affected array has root on it it's game over: no logins of
any sort, no issuing commands, no manual failing, since any process
that accesses a fs will hang.

C.