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From: Asdo <asdo@shiftmail.org>
Subject: Re: Help on first dangerous scrub / suggestions
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:15:29 +0100
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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