On Sunday September 3, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, Clive Messer wrote:
> 
> > This leads me to a question. I understand from reading the linux-raid 
> > archives 
> > that the current behaviour when rebuilding with a single badblock on 
> > another 
> > disk is for that disk to also be kicked from the array.
> 
> that's not quite the current behaviour.  since 2.6.14 or .15 or so md will 
> reconstruct bad blocks from other disks and try writing them.  it's only 
> when this fails repeatedly that it knocks the disk out of the array.

"when rebuild" md/raid5 cannot reconstruct bad blocks because the
array is degraded, so a read error is immediately fatal.

NeilBrown

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