John Rowe wrote:
First, can raidreconf grow a RAID6 device? The man page doesn't seem to
mention RAID6 at all.
No, raidreconf has no knowledge of raid-6 at all.
Second, with RAID5 or RAID6 my biggest fear is a system crash whilst the
RAID is writing resulting in dirty blocks. Does RAID6 give some sort of
ECC capability when reconstructing? I'm imagining checking the parity of
a RAID block and if it's wrong assuming each block in turn is dirty,
recalculating it from the first parity and then checking the result
against the second parity.
This is just one of those things.. if you crash while writing, unless you have hardware raid with
NVRAM you are going to leave the array in an unclean, uncertain state..
The best you can do is re-sync the array, fsck the filesystem and hope for the
best..
The greatest new feature in md in this regard is the periodically mark the array as clean while it's
idle.. It generally ensures that most of the time on a crash you don't need a resync on the next
assemble.
Brad
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