Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261774AbVEUTFb (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 May 2005 15:05:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261775AbVEUTFb (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 May 2005 15:05:31 -0400 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:35990 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261774AbVEUTFZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 May 2005 15:05:25 -0400 Subject: Re: software RAID From: Alan Cox To: Lennart Sorensen Cc: Adam Miller , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20050520200334.GF23621@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> References: <20050520200334.GF23621@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1116702201.7080.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 20:03:23 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 801 Lines: 18 On Gwe, 2005-05-20 at 21:03, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > If a harddisk has a bad sector that is visible to the user (and hence > not remapped by the drive) then it is time to retire the drive since it > is out of spares and very damaged by that point. Sector reads failing due to poweroff during sector write or very occasionally through vibration or other error may not always indicate drive replacement is appropriate. Generally yes it does and SMART may flag it. Rewriting the sector is a good thing to try as ext2/3 fsck for example does in this case. - 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/