My observation was it never used to this until version 4....
P.
eli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 11:48, Dan Pritts wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 03:55:25PM +0100, Peter Farrow wrote:
>>>
>>>> "Don't know whether I understand you correctly, but RAID1 array
>>>> sync is
>>>> started with firstboot after the installation finished."
>>>>
>>>> Err....no it doesn't.... it syncs the array as it installs, do a
>>>> cntrl-alt-f3 when installing to bring a shell up then do a "watch
>>>> cat /proc/mdstat"
>>>
>>>
>>> I've observed this too. Really irritating.
>>
>>
>>
>> RAID1 has to sync as you create it - and if it doesn't complete and
>> shut down cleanly it will do it again on the first boot. With
>> hardware that is reasonable to run as RAID1 it shouldn't be
>> noticeable. Why is it irritating?
>>
>
> It halts the install of packages until the sync is done for the /
> mount points. (/var/ /bin/ /etc/ ..)
> As a mount is required, it snycs the drives.
>
> Later, when installing the files in /boot, it syncs that too.
> Basically, it is lots of waiting with what looks like a frozen task
> bar. The waiting is the pain. ;)
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