From: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
To: Martin Bene <martin.bene@icomedias.com>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Checking consistency of Linux software RAID
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 15:16:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030630131633.GD12240@marowsky-bree.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D618F6493CE064A844A5D496733D667031A01@freedom.icomedias.com>
On 2003-06-30T14:58:19,
Martin Bene <martin.bene@icomedias.com> said:
> Scheduling a (weekly) complete media scan where all surfaces of all drives
> get read; in case of read errors a repair is tried: the content for the
> failed sector is reconstructed just as if the drive had completely failed and
> rewritten to the failed sector; if reading works afterwards, regard the
> repair as successfull and continue using the drive.
This can't currently be done.
I'd suggest to start from the resync code and instead use it to check
instead; add an ioctl to trigger the consistency scan, then you can
schedule it via cron all you like.
Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-30 13:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-30 12:58 Checking consistency of Linux software RAID Martin Bene
2003-06-30 13:13 ` Gordon Henderson
2003-06-30 13:16 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2003-06-30 13:28 ` Gordon Henderson
2003-06-30 13:36 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2003-06-30 13:16 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree [this message]
2003-07-07 18:29 ` Bernd Schubert
2003-07-07 18:42 ` Corey McGuire
2003-07-08 16:51 ` Bernd Schubert
2003-07-08 21:23 ` software raid hangs Donghui Wen
2003-07-08 21:38 ` Matt Simonsen
2003-07-08 21:41 ` Donghui Wen
2003-07-08 21:47 ` Checking consistency of Linux software RAID Corey McGuire
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2003-07-09 8:06 Martin Bene
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