Re: Scrub?

On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Mark Watts wrote:

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...

http://www.nexsan.com/products/FAQATAboy.pdf

There is a sentense:

"Array is verified before being put into production;  automatic "parity
scrub" (array verify) is performed as a background task every 24 hours
after"

So some use it in the sense of "verify" anyway. I prefer verify as well, 
it seems a more adequate word. There are numerous referrals to the word 
"scrub" as verify when doing a google search for "+raid +scrub".

I set my 3ware volumes to verify every week, it makes me more comfortable 
with the volumes being checked and excercised on a regular basis so I know 
all blocks can be read from all drives.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se