tucansam Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 After adding a new disk and rebuilding the disk, is it necessary to perform a parity check? Is it redundant? A good idea? Best practice? I've always done one, but not sure its necessary. Thanks. Link to comment
trurl Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 2 hours ago, tucansam said: After adding a new disk and rebuilding the disk, is it necessary to perform a parity check? Is it redundant? A good idea? Best practice? I've always done one, but not sure its necessary. Thanks. I have a quibble with your first sentence. Adding a new disk would mean a new slot in the array, which does not involve a rebuild. I think what you mean is replacing a disk with a new disk. A non-correcting parity check after the rebuild will check that the rebuilt data is correct. Link to comment
JonathanM Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 Adding a disk to a new array slot or rebuilding/replacing a disk are two separate actions. When adding a disk, a correcting parity check is a good idea, but not necessary. After rebuilding a disk, a non-correcting check ensures the rebuild was accurate. Parity checks should always return exactly zero errors, any other result should be investigated. Link to comment
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