Re: How to avoid complete rebuild of RAID 6 array (6/8 active devices)

[Richard Scobie <richard@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthias Urlichs wrote:

> In fact, as I said, there may be problems lurking on other disks which I
> just haven't found yet (how often do you read all 5TB of your data?),
> which means that a feature like this is the difference between being
> able to recover and certain data loss, RAID-6 nonwithstanding.

This is why scheduled "check" or "repairs" should be done - see 
Documentation/md.txt in the kernel source for details.

Regards,

Richard
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