Re: md software raid

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On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 07:52:56PM -0500, Leslie Rhorer wrote:
> 
> > Leslie,
> > 
> > How do you check xfs? xfs_check?
> 
> 	Yes.
> 
> > Why not use xfs_repair -n?
> 
> 	I guess the short answer is, "I didn't know it would make a
> difference".  I take it, then, xfs_repair uses a completely different method
> of scanning for errors than xfs_check, one whihcdoes not require so much
> memory?  I find that a bit surprising.

xfs_repair is a separate program that is actually mainainted.  xfs_check
is deprecated and we'll eventually remove it after porting one
remaining checking pass over to xfs_repair (currently xfs_repair can't
check the freespace btree but only fully rebuild them when in repair
mode)

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