Chuck Ebbert wrote: > > ptb wrote: > > > I've done a few million async writes and haven't died yet. Of course I > > don't know if this procedure works always. > > What happens if the system crashes before all the writes complete? It depends which system crashes... Peter's current code does not handle the primary server crashing at all, since there is no disk backing of the bitmap. If the network fails or the secondary fails, however, this can be recovered from without data loss. -- Paul - 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