On 2003-06-30T14:28:57, Gordon Henderson <gordon@drogon.net> said: > You are pedantically correct, but in the absence of anything else, at > least it could form a partial solution and let him know that a problem > exists which could them be actioned in some way before it becomes data > threatening. No. The problem is that if badblocks returns anything on a md device, the data _is_ already threatened beyond rescue. A badblocks r/o test on the underlaying devices me be more sensible and help to diagnose it a little, but it also won't verify consistency between the drives. Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de> -- SuSE Labs - Research & Development, SuSE Linux AG "If anything can go wrong, it will." "Chance favors the prepared (mind)." -- Capt. Edward A. Murphy -- Louis Pasteur - 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