Re: mismatch_cnt questions

[Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 12 May 2008, Bas van Schaik wrote:

> 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?
Good question.
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