Re: two questions re. proactive recovery and forced assembly

[rosenfield.albert@xxxxxxxxx]

Richard Scobie wrote:
>  There is a md RAID feature called "repair", which can be regularly
> scheduled via a cron job and will do a full check and repair of the entire
> array.
>
>  This can be initiated with the command:
>
>  echo repair > /sys/block/mdX/md/sync_action
>
>  where mdX is your array.
>
>  More information on md RAID options can be found in the file md.txt, in the
> Documentation directory of the kernel source.

Beautiful, just what I was looking for.

Thanks!

(How about forcibly assembling an array where one too many disks has
been kicked?  Is that still, uhm, contorted to say the least? Or is
there a proper feature for that too?)
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