also sprach Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-...@web.de> [2009.11.17.0558 +0100]: > Neil Brown recently explained on the linux-raid ML that one can do > partial checks on a raid array: > > | If you first read from 'sync_completed' and store that value, > | then before starting a new 'check', write the value to > | sync_max, then you get exactly what you are asking for, all > > I assume he ment sync_min here. > > | easily done in a shell script. > | You can also set 'sync_max' if you like, thus you could e.g. > | quite easily have a cron job that scrubs 1/28th of the array each > | night based on the day of the month. > > I think it would be a good idea to change the default check to run > like this, a little every day or week with /etc/default/mdadm saying > which of the two.
I like the idea but won't have the time to implement this anytime soon. Patches welcome. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madd...@d.o> Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems
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