> From: NeilBrown [mailto:neilb@xxxxxxxx] > Sent: Monday, June 19, 2017 9:15 PM > Subject: RE: mismatch_cnt > 0 during initial sync? > > This is a recovery, not a resync. They are different. Thank you for pointing this out and the nice explanation. >From reading this list and other sources issuing a repair command as follows: "echo repair > /sys/block/md2/md/sync_action" might be ill-advised since it's luck of the draw whether or not the operation gets the right data instead of the bad data. Is this correct? For reference I have a RAID1 with 3 disks. mdadm - v3.3 - 3rd September 2013 Thank you, Pete -- 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