Re: Fault tolerance with badblocks

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On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 10:44 AM, Edward Kuns <eddie.kuns@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 10:53 PM, Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Scrubs don't happen by default.
>
> From the perspective of Linux Raid authors, that is true.  However,
> the version of Fedora I have installed on my server at home does
> weekly scrubs by default.

That is a check scrub, not a repair scrub, so it still wouldn't
obliterate "good" P & Q by default.

> This is arguably a good thing, considering
> that many people installing this OS will not proactively research the
> technologies in use holding their server together and won't know that
> there are certain maintenance activities that are essential if you
> care about your data.
>
> I'm not getting involved in the bigger discussion.  My opinion is too
> uninformed to say anything there.  I just wanted to point out that
> *from the viewpoint of some users*, scrubs *will* happen by default.
> That is all.


Absolutely, just not the kind of scrub that's being accused of
damaging assumed to be good P & Q parity.

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