Hi,

Richard Scobie:

This is why scheduled "check" or "repairs" should be done - see  
Documentation/md.txt in the kernel source for details.

While I agree with that idea in general, the time required for such
checks tends to grow faster than the time to read a whole disk.

Besides: even if you regular checks, your data is still going to be
safer when you keep the disk online until its replacement is ready.

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