You can trigger a 'check' with
echo check > /sys/block/mdX/md/scan_mode
or a check-and-repair errors with
echo repair > /sys/block/mdX/md/scan_mode
and read the current state from the same file.
Note: personalities need to know the different between 'check' and 'repair',
but don't yet. Until they do, 'check' will be the same as 'repair' and will
just do a normal resync pass.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>