On 08/09/10 07:40, Neil Brown wrote:

It looks like you have an ancient kernel - older than April 2010 :-)
A patch went in to 2.6.35 and I think some 2.6.34.y which fixed a bug that
causes md to drop devices in a degraded RAID6 when it could have fixed the
read error.  Commit 7b0bb5368a719

So a newer kernel might fix your problem for you.
   

FYI, at least Debian 5, and RHEL 5 have picked up these patches AFAIK.

Tim.

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