On Friday 06 Aug 2004 8:24 pm, Salyzyn, Mark wrote: > We have two RAID cards of different heritage over here with differing > definitions. One defines scrub as a means of erasing any content and > ensuring all blocks have correct parity or redundancy information; the > other defines it solely for RAID-5 to rebuild all the parity blocks. The > action in the second case resolves itself as a result of reading the bad > block. Well I've only ever seen the phrase 'scrub' used when refering to wiping disks, usually in a secure way (multiple passes with different bit paterns). Thats on this side of the pond anyway... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
