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From: Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe <Mario.Holbe@TU-Ilmenau.DE>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Proactive Drive Replacement
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:57:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <gdkn4n$u6p$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 48FD94F9.3060400@dgreaves.com

David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com> wrote:
> The main issue is that the drive being replaced almost certainly has a bad
> block.

Then, the replacement is not pro-active ;)

> This block could be recovered from the raid5 set but won't be.

This is what 'check' and 'repair' operations
(/sys/block/md*/md/sync_action) can be used for.


regards
   Mario
-- 
When Bruce Schneier uses double ROT13 encryption, the ciphertext is totally
unbreakable.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-21 13:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-20 17:35 Proactive Drive Replacement Jon Nelson
2008-10-20 22:40 ` Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
2008-10-21  8:38   ` David Greaves
2008-10-21 13:05     ` Jon Nelson
2008-10-21 13:36       ` David Greaves
2008-10-21 13:50       ` David Lethe
2008-10-21 14:11         ` Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
2008-10-21 15:13           ` David Lethe
2008-10-21 15:30             ` Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
2008-10-21 19:39         ` David Greaves
2008-10-21 13:57     ` Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe [this message]
2008-10-21 17:29       ` David Greaves
2008-10-24  5:57     ` Luca Berra
2008-10-24  8:09       ` David Greaves
2008-10-25 13:20         ` Luca Berra
2008-10-25 16:33           ` David Greaves

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