From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Craig Shelley Subject: Re: A Word of Warning about Linux Software Raid Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 22:02:01 +0100 Message-ID: <1155502922.23465.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1155319786.8121.43.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060811213450.cf67e32e.reiser4@blinkenlights.ch> <20060812123342.BEFC03BE@philou.gramoulle.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-zrjnkCyyhZ5ospQRUxpF" Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <20060812123342.BEFC03BE@philou.gramoulle.local> List-Id: To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com --=-zrjnkCyyhZ5ospQRUxpF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2006-08-12 at 14:33 +0200, Philippe Gramoull=E9 wrote: > Hello, >=20 > On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 21:34:50 +0200 > Adrian Ulrich wrote: >=20 > | > It seems that the kernel does not check the integrity of the data o= n mirrored raid, =20 > |=20 > | It does if you tell the kernel to do so: > |=20 > | # echo check > /sys/block/md0/md/sync_action=20 >=20 > I have just upgraded from an older kernel to be able to use such a functi= onality but : I too have just upgraded, kernel from 2.6.14.3 to 2.6.17.8, and from debian sarge to etch, and things are much nicer. Debconf even asked how often/when the I would prefer the disks to be checked. I also set up smartmontools since this newer kernel supports the SMART on SATA. Thanks for pointing this out. Regards, --=20 Craig Shelley EMail: craig@microtron.org.uk Jabber: shell@jabber.earth.li --=-zrjnkCyyhZ5ospQRUxpF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBE35NJ5OI9vmOoVqERAphKAJ9iFhytNAi4uglgrcyvIATnEgIowwCeMXRi pL779AxUJ3+04oE4PZ7BjeY= =mbM7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-zrjnkCyyhZ5ospQRUxpF--