Re: mismatch_cnt questions

[Bas van Schaik <bas@xxxxxxxx>]

Neil Brown wrote:
> On Sunday March 4, pernegger@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>   
> (...)
>> 3) Is the "repair" sync action safe to use on the above kernel? Any
>> other methods / additional steps for fixing this?
>>     
>
> "repair" is safe, though it may not be effective.
> "repair" for raid1 was did not work until Jan 26th this year.
> Before then it was identical in effect to 'check'.
>   
Sorry to dig up such an old thread, but I'd like to know since when
(which kernel version) "repair" (recompute parity, assuming data is
consistent) for raid5 is effective?

  -- Bas
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