Jason Rainforest wrote: > I tried doing a check, found a mismatch_cnt of 8 (7*250Gb SW RAID5, > multiple controllers on Linux 2.6.19.2, SMP x86-64 on Athlon64 X2 4200 > +). > > I then ordered a resync. The mismatch_cnt returned to 0 at the start of As pointed out later it was repair, not resync. > the resync, but around the same time that it went up to 8 with the > check, it went up to 8 in the resync. After the resync, it still is 8. I > haven't ordered a check since the resync completed. As far as I understand, repair will do the same as check does, but ALSO will try to fix the problems found. So the number in mismatch_cnt after a repair will indicate the amount of mismatches found _and fixed_ /mjt - 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