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Re: gptmbr.bin vs RAIDframe



On Fri 19 Jun 2015 at 01:27:09 +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
> Of course, if a drive develops bad spots, the single raidframe approach will
> fail that drive, and none of the filesystems will be mirrored until the
> drive is replaced or the bad spots corrected - the multiple raidframe approach
> will only file the arrays where the bad spots occur, other filesystems
> would remain mirrored.

Which leads to the question: has this principle never been used in
single-large-RAID setups? Like there is now some memory of which parts
of the disk have parity that still needs to be rebuilt (right?), one
could re-use the same zones and remember in which one of those there was
a read error.

> kre
-Olaf.
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___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert  -- The Doctor: No, 'eureka' is Greek for
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