Re: Thoughts on large disk reliability and raid maintenance?

[Klaus Heinz <k.heinz%sepacht.kh-22.de@localhost>]

Brian Buhrow wrote:

>       I wonder if it might be useful to add a thread which slowly and
> continuously reads the raid set over and over again, testing for bad
> sectors and, as he suggests, writing them back to the affected drives.

ZFS from Sun Solaris has the "zpool scrub" command which they recommend
to use from time to time to detect and "heal" bad blocks.

ciao
     Klaus