On Wednesday May 22, cwebster@ec.rr.com wrote: > > There were a few other minor inconsistencies that I thought you might be > interested in between the output of "mdadm" and that of "lsraid" from > the new raidtools. > > > "mdadm --examine /dev/sda1" shows "State : dirty, no-errors". All other > RAID drives show the same. > > "lsraid -D -a /dev/md0" shows "state = good". All other RAID devices > show the same. I have never looked at "lsraid". My guess is that "good" is equivalent to "no-errors" and that lsraid doesn't bother to report "dirty". This shouldn't relate to the filesystem superblock though... still, a fsck every few months is a good idea. NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html