From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lars Marowsky-Bree Subject: Re: Checking consistency of Linux software RAID Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 15:36:47 +0200 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030630133647.GH12240@marowsky-bree.de> References: <20030630131655.GE12240@marowsky-bree.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: To: Gordon Henderson Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 2003-06-30T14:28:57, Gordon Henderson 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 proble= m > exists which could them be actioned in some way before it becomes dat= a > 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-Br=E9e --=20 SuSE Labs - Research & Development, SuSE Linux AG =20 "If anything can go wrong, it will." "Chance favors the prepared (mind)= =2E" -- Capt. Edward A. Murphy -- Louis Pasteur - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html