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RAID array

RAID array

Posted Mar 20, 2008 12:23 UTC (Thu) by wurtel (subscriber, #7155)
In reply to: RAID array by pbrutsch
Parent article: On the vger.kernel.org outage

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.


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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.

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