Neil Brown schrieb: > > This isn't a resync, it is a data check. "Dec 2" is the first Sunday > of the month. You probably have a crontab entries that does > echo check > /sys/block/mdX/md/sync_action > > early on the first Sunday of the month. I know that Debian does this. > > It is good to do this occasionally to catch sleeping bad blocks. > Duh, thanks for clearing this up. I guess what set the alarm off was getting what looked like a rebuild to me while stress testing. Yes, I'm running Debian and I have exactly this entry in my crontab... Perhaps they should add a short log entry like "starting periodic RAID check" so that people know there is nothing to worry about.
Or maybe I should just RTFC (read the fine crontab) ;-) Oliver - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
