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RAID array
RAID array
Posted Mar 20, 2008 6:46 UTC (Thu) by pbrutsch (subscriber, #4987)In reply to: RAID array by quotemstr
Parent article: On the vger.kernel.org outage
That is a very common feature, and most certaily not limited to 3ware! I have Areca, Adaptec, and LSI Logic RAID cards that can all do the same.
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RAID array
Posted Mar 20, 2008 12:23 UTC (Thu) by wurtel (subscriber, #7155) [Link]
Linux software raid (md) can also check an array for problems, Debian offers to run a cronjob every month to do that, if you install mdadm. Coupled with SMART autotests you're pretty safe.
RAID array
Posted Mar 20, 2008 20:20 UTC (Thu) by hmh (subscriber, #3838) [Link]
If you want to be pretty safe, you'll need to test every *day*, not once a month. I know this from experience.
RAID array
Posted Mar 20, 2008 22:31 UTC (Thu) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link]
This sounds like a useful media scrubbing feature. However, sector checksumming seems like it requires filesystem changes, and I've only seen that proposed in btrfs, which is in early development stages.