Am Sonntag, 17. September 2006 13:36 schrieben Sie: > On 9/17/06, Ask Bjørn Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It's recommended to use a script to scrub the raid device regularly, > > > to detect sleeping bad blocks early. > > > > What's the best way to do that? dd the full md device to /dev/null? > > echo check >/sys/block/md?/md/sync_action > > Distros may have cron scripts to do this "right". > > And you need a fairly recent kernel.
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