On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Mark Watts wrote: > 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... http://www.nexsan.com/products/FAQATAboy.pdf There is a sentense: "Array is verified before being put into production; automatic "parity scrub" (array verify) is performed as a background task every 24 hours after" So some use it in the sense of "verify" anyway. I prefer verify as well, it seems a more adequate word. There are numerous referrals to the word "scrub" as verify when doing a google search for "+raid +scrub". I set my 3ware volumes to verify every week, it makes me more comfortable with the volumes being checked and excercised on a regular basis so I know all blocks can be read from all drives. -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@xxxxxxxxx - 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
