Re: RAID-1 and disk I/O
On Sunday, July 18, 2021 09:37:53 AM David wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Jul 2021 at 21:08, <rhkramer@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Interesting -- not surprising, makes sense, but something (for me, at
> > least) to keep in mind -- probably not a good idea to run on an old
> > drive that hasn't been backed up.
>
> Sorry if my language was unclear. If you read the manpage context, it's
> explaining that drives can be tested without taking them out of service.
> So performance is only "degraded" while the test is running, compared
> to normal operation, because the drive is also busy testing itself.
> It doesn't mean permanent degradation.
Ahh, ok -- thanks for the clarification!
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