Help, my disk array has one dead member

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 11:35:14 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>FWIW tar continues to create an archive, even if some files couldn't be
>read and cause an I/O error when trying to read them. It will display
>what files failed to be add to the archive and the exit status will be
>2 instead of 0, but all files that could be read, are added to the
>archive.

I forgot to mention, that if you repeat creating a tar archive of a
directory where reading files cause an I/O error, not necessarily each
time the read access fails for the same files.