From: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
To: Gordon Henderson <gordon@drogon.net>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Checking consistency of Linux software RAID
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 15:36:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030630133647.GH12240@marowsky-bree.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0306301425030.31613-100000@unicorn.drogon.net>
On 2003-06-30T14:28:57,
Gordon Henderson <gordon@drogon.net> said:
> You are pedantically correct, but in the absence of anything else, at
> least it could form a partial solution and let him know that a problem
> exists which could them be actioned in some way before it becomes data
> threatening.
No. The problem is that if badblocks returns anything on a md device,
the data _is_ already threatened beyond rescue.
A badblocks r/o test on the underlaying devices me be more sensible and
help to diagnose it a little, but it also won't verify consistency
between the drives.
Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-30 13:36 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 [this message]
2003-06-30 13:16 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
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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