On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 08:22:00PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:

> >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.

Right, so you're saying that it's probably a bug rather than an
intentional 'feature'?
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