scrubbing in linux volume manager

Manish Katiyar mkatiyar at gmail.com
Thu Jan 27 19:55:11 EST 2011


On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:02 AM, sanoj <k.u.sanoj at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I did not find any support for scrubbing in lvm, I would like to know id
>> this is right and the reason if so
>> I see 2 reasons => performance overhead
>>                        => demerits of scrubbing when silent data corruption
>> and disk failure simultaneously ocurrs.
>>
>>
>> thanks,
>> sanoj
>
> What's "scrubbing"?

I think he meant regular "disk scrubbing" to zero out the contents.

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Thanks -
Manish



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