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From: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>
To: Guy Watkins <linux-raid@watkins-home.com>
Cc: 'Bill Davidsen' <davidsen@tmr.com>,
	'Goswin von Brederlow' <goswin-v-b@web.de>,
	linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Requesting replace mode for changing a disk
Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 09:02:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877i0pe8zj.fsf@frosties.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4019EAB86E8342028374C6968D6D67E2@m5> (Guy Watkins's message of "Sat, 9 May 2009 22:20:07 -0400")

"Guy Watkins" <linux-raid@watkins-home.com> writes:

> If the disk is suspect, I would expect read errors!
> If you have 1 bad block on the suspect disk, this process will fail.
> If the logic was built-in to md, then any read errors while replacing could
> be recovered from another disk or disks.

That is actualy a good point. I didn't even think of that.

It would require a true replace mode in all raid levels though and not
just internally starting a raid1.

MfG
        Goswin

  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-10  7:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-08 22:15 Requesting replace mode for changing a disk Goswin von Brederlow
2009-05-09 11:41 ` John Robinson
2009-05-09 23:07 ` Bill Davidsen
2009-05-10  1:22   ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-05-10  2:20   ` Guy Watkins
2009-05-10  7:02     ` Goswin von Brederlow [this message]
2009-05-10 14:33     ` Bill Davidsen
2009-05-10 15:55       ` Guy Watkins
2009-05-13  1:21   ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-05-13  3:27     ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-05-13  4:36       ` Neil Brown
2009-05-13  7:37         ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-05-13 11:02           ` Neil Brown
2009-05-14 10:44         ` David Greaves
2009-05-14 12:00           ` Neil Brown
2009-05-13  4:31     ` Neil Brown
2009-05-13  4:37       ` SandeepKsinha
2009-05-13  4:54         ` Neil Brown
2009-05-13  5:07           ` SandeepKsinha
2009-05-13  5:21             ` NeilBrown
2009-05-13  5:31               ` SandeepKsinha
2009-05-13 10:51                 ` Neil Brown
2009-05-13  7:28       ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-05-13  4:08 Sandeep K Sinha

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