Richard Scobie wrote: > There is a md RAID feature called "repair", which can be regularly > scheduled via a cron job and will do a full check and repair of the entire > array. > > This can be initiated with the command: > > echo repair > /sys/block/mdX/md/sync_action > > where mdX is your array. > > More information on md RAID options can be found in the file md.txt, in the > Documentation directory of the kernel source. Beautiful, just what I was looking for. Thanks! (How about forcibly assembling an array where one too many disks has been kicked? Is that still, uhm, contorted to say the least? Or is there a proper feature for that too?) -- 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