david@lang.hm wrote:
> I could see a raid 1 array not doing consistancy checking (after all,
> it has no way of knowing what's right if it finds an error), but since
> raid 5/6 can repair the data I would expect them to do the checking
> each time.
Your messages are spread across the thread. :-)
RAID 5 cannot repair the data. I don't know much about RAID 6, but I
expect it cannot necessarily repair the data either. It still doesn't
know which drive is wrong. In any case, there is no implementation I am
aware of that performs mandatory consistency checks on read. This would
be silliness.
Cheers,
mark
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Mark Mielke <mark@mielke.cc>