On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 09:54:14AM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > I confess, I would feel safer with my data if the rebuild started > over, I would like to be sure that when it (finally) finishes the > data are valid.
With disk #3 about to die, I'd have felt safer if it first finished rebuilding the replacement disk for failed disk #1 (that rebuild had almost completed at that point), safeguarding the array against a third disk failure. Yeah, I know, you're not supposed to lose three disks within one day. > If you replaced the 2nd drive, then a full rebuild would be required > in any case, to get ALL drives valid. You could finish the last little bit of the resync of the replacement for failed disk #1 (by looking at P+Q), and then re-sync the replacement for failed disk #2 (by looking only at P..) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
