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authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2011-07-28 11:39:22 +1000
committerNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2011-07-28 11:39:22 +1000
commit31c176ecdf3563140e6395249eda51a18130d9f6 (patch)
tree5ad7dba363214e9d36fa921c221316d2597078ef /README
parent62096bce231b3760882ed91205fc84682d6b0529 (diff)
md/raid5: avoid reading from known bad blocks.
There are two times that we might read in raid5: 1/ when a read request fits within a chunk on a single working device. In this case, if there is any bad block in the range of the read, we simply fail the cache-bypass read and perform the read though the stripe cache. 2/ when reading into the stripe cache. In this case we mark as failed any device which has a bad block in that strip (1 page wide). Note that we will both avoid reading and avoid writing. This is correct (as we will never read from the block, there is no point writing), but not optimal (as writing could 'fix' the error) - that will be addressed later. If we have not seen any write errors on the device yet, we treat a bad block like a recent read error. This will encourage an attempt to fix the read error which will either generate a write error, or will ensure good data is stored there. We don't yet forget the bad block in that case. That comes later. Now that we honour bad blocks when reading we can allow devices with bad blocks into the array. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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