On Tuesday March 6, Dexter.Filmore@xxxxxx wrote: > So I practiced what I learned today and scrubbed the array. > Getting this: > > xerxes:/sys/block/md0/md# cat mismatch_cnt > 147248 > > 4x 250GB Samsung sATA, smartctl says all fine. > > Need to worry? > If you have a swap file on this array, then that could explain it, so don't worry. If not... maybe worry? I assume you did a 'check' or 'repair' before looking at this file? If not and it is a newly created array, then it is just telling that the drives didn't have the same content when you started.... NeilBrown - 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