2017-06-29 16:33 GMT+02:00 Wols Lists <antlists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > In other words, a patrol check looks for a failing disk. A consistency > check looks for corrupt data. (A consistency check does a patrol check > as a side effect, but you might not want to do just that, as it is > computationally much more expensive. You might want to do a patrol check > every day, and a consistency check of a weekend.) Ok, so, if resources are not a problem, someone could only run a consistency check and totally skip the patrol check. Right ? What about md reliability? There are many detractors out there. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99171 One of the most common complaint is the absence of write-back cache, and if you force a "writeback" you'll risk data loss in case of unclean shutdown (power failure and so on) -- 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
