Ben Scott writes: > On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Tom Buskey <t...@buskey.name> wrote: > > And RAIDs should be scrubbed periodically. > > Modern RAID controllers usually feature something called "patrol > read", which reads all the blocks on the physical disks in the > background, when otherwise idle. > > Is there a similar feature in Linux's RAID implementation?
Yes, md has a 'check' action that you can issue to the kernel to have it run a RAID consistancy check. mdadm issues this once a week (by default) you can also issue this manually with something like: $ echo check > /sys/block/md0/md/sync_action -- Dave _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
