On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Dawning Sky wrote:
2. Quite a few people talked about "scrubbing" the raid, can someone point me to somewhere I can read more about it? I'm new to the list. I tried googling and reading the list wiki and had a hard time finding a tutorial for setting this up.
My debian/ubuntu boxes do this every sunday night via: swmike@ub:/etc/cron.d$ cat mdadm # # cron.d/mdadm -- schedules periodic redundancy checks of MD devices # # Copyright © martin f. krafft <madduck@xxxxxxxxxxx> # distributed under the terms of the Artistic Licence 2.0 # # By default, run at 00:57 on every Sunday, but do nothing unless the day of # the month is less than or equal to 7. Thus, only run on the first Sunday of # each month. crontab(5) sucks, unfortunately, in this regard; therefore this # hack (see #380425). 57 0 * * 0 root [ -x /usr/share/mdadm/checkarray ] && [ $(date +\%d) -le 7 ] && /usr/share/mdadm/checkarray --cron --all --quiet -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@xxxxxxxxx
