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From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Raid Checks
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 21:19:37 +1000
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On Sun, 03 Apr 2011 12:04:46 +0100 Jonathan Tripathy <jonnyt@abpni.co.uk>
wrote:

> 
> >> My main concern, is that during these resyncs, I loose redundancy, don't I?
> > No.
> >
> > NeilBrown
> >
> Ah right, so by letting the raid-check script resync my RAID1 arrays 
> every Sunday, the only thing I loose is disk performance during the 
> resync?

Correct.

>         This is what state my server is currently in:
> 
> State : clean, resyncing

With mdadm 3.2.1, this will show "checking" when it is checking, rather than
"resyncing".

NeilBrown


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