Re:

["Kenn" <kenn@kenn.us>]

> On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:52:48 +1000
> NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 21:23:31 -0700 "Kenn" <kenn@kenn.us> wrote:
>>
>> > I have a raid5 array that had a drive drop out, and resilvered the
>> wrong
>> > drive when I put it back in, corrupting and destroying the raid.  I
>> > stopped the array at less than 1% resilvering and I'm in the process
>> of
>> > making a dd-copy of the drive to recover the files.
>>
>> I don't know what you mean by "resilvered".
>
> At first I thought the initial poster just invented some peculiar funny
> word of his own, but it looks like it's from the ZFS circles:
> https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=resilver+zfs
> @Kenn; you probably mean 'resync' or 'rebuild', but no one ever calls
> those processes 'resilver' here, you'll get no google results and
> blank/unknowing/funny looks from people when using that term in relation
> to mdadm.

Good point, I am a very old unix user and my RAID terminology hasn't been
properly updated since college.  Resilver is mentioned here in wikipedia
for disk mirroring http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_mirroring and I've
always used the word but it's not in the RAID page and I'll switch to
"rebuilding".

Thanks,
Kenn


>
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> With respect,
> Roman
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