RAID checks appear as resyncs in the log on RHEL5
Issue
- The weekly RAID check is occurring, but despite the settings for check only(not repair) the raid filesystem seems to be rebuilding anyway.
/etc/sysconfig/raid-check
ENABLED=yes
CHECK=check
# To check devs /dev/md0 and /dev/md3, use "md0 md3"
CHECK_DEVS=""
REPAIR_DEVS=""
SKIP_DEVS=""
/var/log/messages
May 18 04:22:01 kernel: md: syncing RAID array md1
May 18 04:22:01 kernel: md: minimum _guaranteed_ reconstruction speed: 1000 KB/sec/disc.
May 18 04:22:01 kernel: md: using maximum available idle IO bandwidth (but not more than 200000 KB/sec) for reconstruction.
May 18 04:22:01 kernel: md: using 128k window, over a total of 521984 blocks.
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Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- md/dm mirrors
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