So my understanding is that the problem is that the raid driver throws an error when it fails to read a bit, asserting that it can't read the whole array. Does

So my understanding is that the problem is that the raid driver throws an error when it fails to read a bit, asserting that it can't read the whole array. Does this mean that since it's the raid driver itself claiming "Hes dead, Jim", that most filesystem-level protections will be ineffective since the array itself is "dead"? Of course, if your filesystem leveraged multiple RAID arrays as independent disks, it would have a chance. For software raid at least, could it not leverage some kind of Hamming or Reed-Solomon code so that it doesn't fail hard like this?