Bug#556610: Please do incremental checks every night instead of a full monthly one

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b at web.de> [2009.11.17.0558 +0100]:
> Neil Brown recently explained on the linux-raid ML that one can do
> partial checks on a raid array:
> 
> | If you first read from 'sync_completed' and store that value,
> | then before starting a new 'check', write the value to
> | sync_max, then you get exactly what you are asking for, all
> 
> I assume he ment sync_min here.
> 
> | easily done in a shell script.
> | You can also set 'sync_max' if you like, thus you could e.g.
> | quite easily have a cron job that scrubs 1/28th of the array each
> | night based on the day of the month.
> 
> I think it would be a good idea to change the default check to run
> like this, a little every day or week with /etc/default/mdadm saying
> which of the two.

I like the idea but won't have the time to implement this anytime
soon. Patches welcome.

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