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From: Asdo <asdo@shiftmail.org>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: linux-raid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Help on first dangerous scrub / suggestions
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:15:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B163E41.1050407@shiftmail.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091128082133.62dcb122@notabene.brown>

Neil Brown wrote:
> If the array is marked read-only, it wont do a scrub.
>
> However if you simply don't have any filesystem mounted, then the array
> will remain 'clean' and any failures are less likely cause further
> failures.
>
> So doing it off line is a good idea, but setting the array to read-only
> won't work.
>   

Thanks for the info Neil,
would mounting the filesystems readonly be safe in the same way?
(I might try to rsync some data out during the scrub)
Thank you
Asdo

  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-02 10:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-26 12:14 Help on first dangerous scrub / suggestions Asdo
2009-11-26 12:22 ` Justin Piszcz
2009-11-26 14:06   ` Asdo
2009-11-26 14:38     ` Justin Piszcz
2009-11-26 19:02       ` Asdo
2009-11-26 20:55         ` Justin Piszcz
2009-11-27 13:39           ` Asdo
2009-11-27 18:11             ` Asdo
2009-11-27 21:08               ` Justin Piszcz
2009-11-27 21:21               ` Neil Brown
2009-12-02 10:15                 ` Asdo [this message]
2009-11-26 14:03 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2009-11-26 14:13   ` Asdo

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