From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Max Eaves Subject: Re: Problems with RAID 6 across 15 disks Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 11:21:58 +0100 Message-ID: <4BB5C546.2090401@maxeaves.co.uk> References: <4BB49E4D.1090809@maxeaves.co.uk> <4BB4A461.5030704@redhat.com> <4BB4A89F.7030707@maxeaves.co.uk> <20100402074325.3ce34e8f@notabene.brown> <20100401224644.GA2455@lazy.lzy> <1270162736.24051.0.camel@travelmate.workshop> <20100401230437.GA5067@lazy.lzy> <1270172413.24051.2.camel@travelmate.workshop> <20100402160338.389ca4d8@notabene.brown> Reply-To: max@maxeaves.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20100402160338.389ca4d8@notabene.brown> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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