From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ptb@lab.it.uc3m.es (Peter T. Breuer) Subject: Re: Joys of spare disks! Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 18:09:07 +0100 Message-ID: References: <200503071636.j27GaMnD009839@newsguy.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids LinuxRaid@suykerbuyk.org wrote: > I've been going through the MD driver source, and to tell the truth, can't > figure out where the read error is detected and how to "hook" that event and > force a re-write of the failing sector. I would very much appreciate it if I did that for RAID1, or at least most of it (look for "robust read patch" in this group's archive). I also looked at RAID5, and my reaction was about the same as yours. I made some progress, then decided that valour was not my colour that day. > someone out there could send me some some hints/tips/pointers on how to > impliment this. I'm not a Linux / kernel hacker (yet), but this should not be > hard to fix.... Peter