What is the difference between failing and failed disks?

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What is the difference between failing and failed disks?..

Failing disk can be cleared through vxedit command if you
know diks is healthy, but failed disk may require physical
replacement.

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What is the difference between failing and failed disks?..

Answer / anji

the private resion is field it show the error failing public
resio is failed it show the error faield

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What is the difference between failing and failed disks?..

Answer / ar saithini

failing means if there is a bad sectors on disk , the I/O
will be fail. but there is no data loss. for example in
veritas if vxiod write option failes then it it shift the
private region to public region

failed means disk is totally failed to I/O operations. in
this case vxiod transfer the failed info to the vxrelocd.
vxrelocd uses the hot spare disk or wait for disk
replacement by the admin.

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