i don´t know if exists, but maybe a internal mdadm command to check array (if have mirrors or ecc/checksum) with a limited speed (mb/s) read operation could help with periodic check (instead resync) 2011/2/7 Martin Cracauer <cracauer@xxxxxxxx>: > I just got through the RebuildStarted event which seems to be > monthly. This is being triggered by my Debian config, but before I > nuke it I'd like to know a little more. > > If a real disk error happens during this rebuild on a raid5, would the > disk go into regular degraded mode or would it count as a double > fault? > > I also noticed that recently all the checks for all the arrays happen > simultaneously. That's bad because most of them share the same > physical disks. Am I imagining this or was the system smart enough to > do them one after another until recently? > > Do you do period checks? I get lots of device mismatches reported but > apparently that's normal if there's write activity. The whole thing > sound contra-productive to me and might panic new users. > > Martin > -- > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > Martin Cracauer <cracauer@xxxxxxxx> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ > -- > 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 > -- Roberto Spadim Spadim Technology / SPAEmpresarial -- 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