Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: FYI: RAID5 unusably unstable through 2.6.14 | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:32:20 +0000 |
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On Mer, 2006-01-18 at 11:15 -0500, Mark Lord wrote: > For example, one bad sector on a drive doesn't mean that > the entire drive has failed. It just means that one 512-byte > chunk of the drive has failed.
You don't actually know what failed, truth be told, probably a lot more than 512 byte spec of disk nowdays.
> We could rewrite the failed area of the drive, allowing the > onboard firmware to repair the fault internally, likely by
We should do so definitely but you probably want to rewrite the stripe as a whole so that you fix up the other sectors in the physical sector that went poof.
> Just need somebody motivated to actually fix it, > rather than bitch about how impossible/stupid it would be.
Send patches ;)
PS: How is the delkin_cb driver - does it know how to do modes and stuff yet ? Just wondering if I should pull a version for libata whacking
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