NeilBrown (neilb@xxxxxxx) said: > > You shut down the machine. After a while, you get to the point where > > you're getting ready to unmount the filesystem. Since mdmon's running > > on it (if you started it post boot), you have to kill it. After that > > point, there are going to be writes (a final sync, if nothing else, > > when you unmount the filesystem.) And you won't be able to set any > > RAID metadata flags then, as the daemon won't be running. So, doing > > a later run of "mdmon /proc/mdstat" doesn't fully protect you. > > Last time I checked, Linux would not unmount the root filesystem. > It just remounts it 'read-only'. > Is that going to change? Yeah, I screwed up that part. However, it still syncs, and the mdmon process will still be dead. Bill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
