I know the raid5 code is still new and being worked on, but I was
curious.
With md raid5, I can do this:
mdadm /dev/md7 --replace /dev/sde1
This is cool because it lets you replace a drive with bad sectors where
at least one other drive in the array has bad sectors, and the md layer
will read all drives for each stripe and write to a new drive.
The nice part is that it'll take the working parts of each drive, and as
long as no 2 drives have an unreadable sector for the same stripe, it
can recover.
I was curious, how does btrfs handle this situation, and more generally
drive failures, spurious multiple drive failures due to a bus blip where
you force the drives back online, and so forth?
Thanks,
Marc
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