On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, John Hendrikx wrote:

> I agree with the original poster though, I'd really love to see Linux
> Raid take special action on sector read failures.  It happens about 5-6
> times a year here that a disk gets kicked out of the array for a simple
> read failure.  A rebuild of the array will fix it without a trace, but a
> rebuild takes about 3 hours :)

One thing that's well worth doing before simply fail/remove/add the drive
with the bad sector, is to do a read-only test on the other
drives/paritions in the rest of the set. That way you won't find out
half-way through the resync that other drives have failures, and then lose
the lot. It adds time to the whole operation, but it's worth it IMO.

Gordon
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