Re: raid 1 - automatic 'repair' possible?

[Alan Cox]

> Depending on the type of drive error, the act of writing is likely to 
> clean the questionable sector and leave you with a perfectly fine disk.
> 

Definitely - and in fact some of the other Linux tools already know
about this and do it (for example ext3 fsck will force rewrite bad
blocks if you want).

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