[snipping CC] On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 01:05:44PM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > One of the observed issues under raid-tools is not looking at all the > devices' superblocks. This would allow for out of order initialization. > Treating the devices as domino chips and stuffing them back in random > order and it working. Have you seen this happening? With non-development kernels? ;) There was one issue with raid startup that wouldn't start up arrays if the first disk of the array was missing, or something like that. It was a long-standing bug but it has been fixed. I have not heard of the problem you're reporting. > > If I am wrong here, great. Somebody please make the correction. Now is the time for someone out there to actually point out that error which I blissfully ignored and which ruined their TB array of medical records... ;) -- ................................................................ : jakob@unthought.net : And I see the elder races, : :.........................: putrid forms of man : : Jakob Østergaard : See him rise and claim the earth, : : OZ9ABN : his downfall is at hand. : :.........................:............{Konkhra}...............: - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html