Mostly as a reminder to myself… it’s important to have a cron job that verifies your RAID array integrity on a regular basis. (Once a week is what most hardware RAID controllers seem to use.)<\/p>\n
This is accomplished with a command such as:<\/p>\n
echo check > \/sys\/block\/md0\/md\/sync_action<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Replace md0<\/em> with the device name of your RAID array.<\/p>\n
Happy RAIDing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mostly as a reminder to myself… it’s important to have a cron job that verifies your RAID array integrity on a regular basis. (Once a week is what most hardware RAID controllers seem to use.) This is accomplished with a command such as: echo check > \/sys\/block\/md0\/md\/sync_action Replace md0 with the device name of your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PV8H-5p","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17,"url":"https:\/\/aarontc.com\/archive\/2010\/04\/recovering-from-a-multiple-disk-failure-with-linux-software-raid5\/","url_meta":{"origin":335,"position":0},"title":"Recovering from a multiple-disk failure with Linux software RAID5","author":"Aaron","date":"April 28, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The scenario is this: I have a system with several external USB hard drives that are part of a RAID5 array. 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