On 05/03/2010 08:04 PM, Sam Leon wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:On 05/02/2010 03:24 PM, Alexander Samad wrote: [snip]My system used to become close to unusable on the 1st sunday of the month when mdadm did it resync,That sounds... wrong, on a jillion levels.I would rather the array fail on a monthly resync than have it fail on a resync after replacing a drive and loose everything.
Arrays shouldn't fall out of sync, so a "monthly resync" *is* wrong on a jillion levels.
Fortunately, as Martin Krafft pointed out, it's really a monthly self-test, and -- to a Large Systems DBA -- that's OK.
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