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From: "Dan Williams" <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Cc: mingo@redhat.com, neilb@suse.de, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: raid6 rebuild
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 20:22:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e9c3a7c20704042022p6088bdcdl97740d2a95818caf@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070404194638.GB3712@xi.wantstofly.org>

On 4/4/07, Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> wrote:
> (please CC on replies, not subscribed to linux-raid@)
>
> Hi!
>
> While my RAID6 array was rebuilding after one disk had failed (which
> I replaced), a second disk failed[*], and this caused the rebuild
> process to start over from the beginning.
>
> Why would the rebuild need to start over from the beginning in this
> case?  Why couldn't it just continue from where it was?
>
I believe it is because raid5 and raid6 share the same error handler
which sets MD_RECOVERY_ERR after losing any disk.  It should probably
not set this flag in 1-disk lost raid6 case, but I might be
overlooking something else.

>
> thanks,
> Lennert
>

Dan

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-05  3:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-04 19:46 raid6 rebuild Lennert Buytenhek
2007-04-05  3:22 ` Dan Williams [this message]
2007-04-05  5:50   ` Lennert Buytenhek
2007-04-05 13:54     ` Bill Davidsen
2007-04-05 14:06       ` Lennert Buytenhek
2007-04-05 16:59         ` Dan Williams
2007-04-11  1:43           ` Neil Brown
2007-04-05  6:03 ` Gordon Henderson
2007-04-05  6:21   ` Lennert Buytenhek
2007-04-05  8:15     ` Gordon Henderson
2007-04-05  8:48       ` Lennert Buytenhek
2007-04-05 10:13 ` Andre Noll

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