Paul Clements wrote: > Stef Telford wrote: > > [snip] > > > during resync's on raid-1 the mirror will not be available. > > I'm not sure I understand this. md/raid1 devices are accessible while > resync is occurring...albeit with lower I/O throughput since the resync > is consuming bandwidth. > The way i read the original posters question was that he/she was trying to restart the faulted 'device', or rather was trying to re-activate the broken md device whilst the working copy was trying to rebuild it. accessing the working copy should work, but not the broken md (unless i have seriously misread someplace :). Under raid5 or raid10, you can still access the broken md during a resync/rebuild, this was what i thought the person was trying to do. apologies if i misunderstood the original phrasing :) regards Stef Telford <stef@chronozon.artofdns.com> - 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
