On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 05:12:53PM +0200, Molle Bestefich wrote:
> Heinz Mauelshagen wrote:
> > FYI: we keep information about which regions (arbitrary sized segments
> > of the address space) of the set are dirty with the the
> > device-mapper dirty-log so that we can resynchonize those at set startup.
>
> Sounds sort of nasty.
> What happens if the user boots to Windows in the mean time?
> Windows will see corrupted data?
Molle,
that was a general statement about device-mapper, not how I use
it with dmraid. dmraid relies on the simple ATARAID metadata which
essentially keeps a clean/dirty flag for the whole set.
Sorry for being unclear,
Heinz
>
> (I mean, that's the whole point of using a hardware soft-RAID
> solution, isn't it? BIOS and multiple-OS support for the metadata
> format / RAID arrays?)
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