scrubbing in linux volume manager

[SandeepKsinha]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 6:25 AM, Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Disk Scrubbing typically refers to the verification of disk drives
against media errors.


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