Gregory Maxwell wrote: >Very interesting indeed, although it almost seems silly to tackle the >difficult problem of making filesystems highly robust against oddball >failure modes while our RAID subsystem falls horribly on it's face in >the fairly common (and conceptually easy to handle) failure mode of a >raid-5 where two disks have single unreadable blocks on differing >parts of the disk. (the current raid system hits one bad block, fails >the whole disk, then you attempt a rebuild and while reading hits the >other bad block and downs the array). > > who's not keeping up with the linux-raid list then ;)
David PS I'm sure assistance would be appreciated in testing and reviewing this few day old feature - or indeed the newer 'add a new disk to the array' feature.
