Re: [PATCH 000 of 5] md: Introduction

[Alan Cox]

On Mer, 2006-01-18 at 09:14 +0100, Sander wrote:
> If the (harddisk internal) remap succeeded, the OS doesn't see the bad
> sector at all I believe.

True for ATA, in the SCSI case you may be told about the remap having
occurred but its a "by the way" type message not an error proper.

> If you (the OS) do see a bad sector, the disk couldn't remap, and goes
> downhill from there, right?

If a hot spare is configured it will be dropped into the configuration
at that point.

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