URGENT: Need help rebuilding iir RAID5 array with failed drive

[Steven Hartland]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Benjamin Close" <Benjamin.Close at clearchain.com>

> Perhaps a lesson as developers we should take from this, is to put a 
> warning in ata about raid5. It's fooled Garret into believing he had a 
> raid5, how many others are also using ata believing their raid5 is a 
> raid5. We should warn people in the future rather than just saying 'its 
> in the docs'. A kernel warning at attach is much more visible.

Although it is more visible, personally I would prefer it to just fail
instead of proceeding. RAID5 is not RAID5 without parity so why even
allow it to continue and hence risk such an unrecoverable situation?

    Regards
    Steve

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