From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tomasz Chmielewski Subject: Re: checking md device parity (forced resync) - is it necessary? Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 10:12:43 +0200 Message-ID: <44FE82FB.3010904@wpkg.org> References: <44FD3C65.8040000@wpkg.org> <17661.19907.140798.943518@cse.unsw.edu.au> <44FD66C3.6040609@wpkg.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: > Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: >> # by default, run at 01:06 on the first Sunday of each month. >> 6 1 1-7 * 7 root [ -x /usr/share/mdadm/checkarray ] && > > You have a quite old version of mdadm. This issue has been fixed in > mdadm (2.5.2-8) unstable from 27 Jul 2006. Current version is mdadm > (2.5.3.git200608202239-2) unstable from 23 Aug 2006. > > Since the feature did just appear in mdadm (2.5.2-3) UNRELEASED from > 7 Jul 2006 (and even just went to unstable with mdadm (2.5.2-7) unstable > from 20 Jul 2006), it seems you were simply in quite bad luck :) Yes, I saw somewhere in the changelogs that the issue is fixed. Still, I can't find 2.5.2-8 anywhere on the mirrors, perhaps it's just a matter of time... -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org