Re: RAID-6: help wanted

Jim Paris wrote:
> > Works here too, once I tried it on i386.  I'll look separately into why 
> > ppc64 seems to have problems, but that's not an issue for RAID-6.
>
>
> Great.  I'll continue testing as I start using it on one of my file
> servers.
>
> Another issue:  If I create a 6-disk RAID-6 array ...
>
> ... with 2 missing, no resync happens.
> ... with 1 missing, no resync happens.  (???)
> ... with 0 missing, resync happens.
> ... with 2 missing, then add 1, recovery happens.
> ... with 0 missing, then fail 1, resync continues.
>
> Shouldn't resync happen in the created-with-1-disk-missing case?
>
> -jim

No, why would it?  You don't have anything to resync to.

        -hpa

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