From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Paul Waldo <pwaldo@waldoware.com>
Subject: Re: Care and feeding of RAID?
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 13:39:57 -0400
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Paul Waldo wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a RAID6 array and I wondering about care and feeding instructions 
> :-)
> 
> Here is what I currently do:
>    - daily incremental and weekly full backups to a separate machine
>    - run smartd tests (short once a day, long once a week)
>    - check the raid for bad blocks every week
> 
> What else can I do make sure the array keeps humming?  Thanks in advance!
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What about bitmaps?  Nobody has mentioned them.  It is my understanding that 
you just turn them on with "mdadm /dev/mdX -b internal".  Any caveats for this?

Paul