On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:11:31 +0100 Asdo <asdo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Asdo wrote: > > .... > > Without knowing this I will probably opt for your way: rsync data out, > > starting from the smallest and most important stuff... > > ... > > I had another thought: > > If I take the computer offline, boot with a livecd (one of the worst > messes here is that the root filesystem is also in that array), run the > raid6 array in READONLY MODE and maybe without spares, then I start a > check (scrub) ... If the array is marked read-only, it wont do a scrub. However if you simply don't have any filesystem mounted, then the array will remain 'clean' and any failures are less likely cause further failures. So doing it off line is a good idea, but setting the array to read-only won't work. 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
