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		andrewcooke on Dec 31, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How multi-disk failures happen isn't this what raid scrubbing is for? http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Software_RAID_Install#Data_Sc... `for raid in /sys/block/md*/md/sync_action; do echo "check" >> ${raid}` does that fix the issue? i run that once a week. i thought i was ok. am i not? if i am, isn't this old news?

pfg on Dec 31, 2012 [–]

yes, you should be fine. AFAIK most distros set up cronjobs for this automatically (for example, Debian/Ubuntu runs that once a month).

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