A much nicer way to get that sort of reliability would be for RAID6 to periodically scan the blocks on the device and to use the extra information to do ECC (and for RAID5 to at tell syslog). John - 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