On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 2:49 AM, Rainer Fuegenstein <rfu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I have this service running >> /etc/init.d/mdmonitor >> with this command >> mdadm --monitor --scan -f --pid-file=/var/run/mdadm/mdadm.pid >> >> that should be the one, right? > > check also /etc/cron.weekly, at least in centos there's a 99-raid-check > script. > > what does it mean when this script is running weekly for years at around > 04:00 without an noticable activity in the morning, but suddenly it syncs > for about 12hours every week? that something is wrong with the disks? > > > -- > 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 > Very likely yes. Check your dmesg / system message log file. You should also have some way of running SMART tests on the drives on a regular basis. I do recall that there was some issue with certain raid controller chipsets and how they interacted with those commands in a negative way... -- 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
