Re: Scrub?

On Friday 06 Aug 2004 8:24 pm, Salyzyn, Mark wrote:

We have two RAID cards of different heritage over here with differing
definitions. One defines scrub as a means of erasing any content and
ensuring all blocks have correct parity or redundancy information; the
other defines it solely for RAID-5 to rebuild all the parity blocks. The
action in the second case resolves itself as a result of reading the bad
block.

Well I've only ever seen the phrase 'scrub' used when refering to wiping 
disks, usually in a secure way (multiple passes with different bit paterns).
Thats on this side of the pond anyway...