Re: Problems with RAID 6 across 15 disks

[Max Eaves <max@maxeaves.co.uk>]

Dear all,

Thank you all very much for everybody's replies over the past 24 hours 
on this.  It did make me chuckle on how I seem to have wandered into a 
hornets nest and given it a jolly good stir.

So - I have decided that what I will do is make the checking script a 
bi-monthly process (it runs every other month), in a new folder on my 
server called /etc/cron.bimonthly and referenced it in /etc/crontab

I feel what should really happen is a more sensible checking of the raid 
arrays, and instead of scanning every single RAID array at the same time 
(not good for my I/O).  I have a slow PCI-X 133Mhz bus here where my 
RAID cards are connected into, so I feel that this is the way forward.  
I'll see what I can do in that direction.

Thanks



Max