Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261264AbVAaRGq (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:06:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261265AbVAaRGp (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:06:45 -0500 Received: from [81.2.110.250] ([81.2.110.250]:8411 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261264AbVAaRGk (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:06:40 -0500 Subject: Re: raid 1 - automatic 'repair' possible? From: Alan Cox To: Ric Wheeler Cc: Jakob Oestergaard , Kiniger , Lars Marowsky-Bree , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <41FA6ADE.4010209@emc.com> References: <20050118211801.GA28400@wszip-kinigka.euro.med.ge.com> <20050118214605.GY22648@marowsky-bree.de> <20050119104852.GB3087@wszip-kinigka.euro.med.ge.com> <20050119115519.GY347@unthought.net> <41FA6ADE.4010209@emc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1107171389.14787.73.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:01:31 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 553 Lines: 14 > Depending on the type of drive error, the act of writing is likely to > clean the questionable sector and leave you with a perfectly fine disk. > Definitely - and in fact some of the other Linux tools already know about this and do it (for example ext3 fsck will force rewrite bad blocks if you want). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/