From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Piergiorgio Sartor <piergiorgio.sartor@nexgo.de>
Subject: Re: Reliability of bitmapped resync
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:36:46 +0100
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Hi,

> Did you mean
> 	echo repair > /sys/block/md0/md/sync_action
>
> I run 'check' regularly and I am rather sure that it reports but does not fix the mismatches.

the sequence is as follow:

1) disk removed.
2) disk re-added
3) _automatic_ resync
4) manual check (after the resync finished)

The last check returns mismatches.

bye,

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piergiorgio