The problem I see and I believe I've had is when the box starts to boot up the system hangs durring the init script runs (pre-runlevel 3). At these times my system is busy hammering my raid arrays and will finally continue on to run level 3 once things are synced up. Thus spake Stef Telford (stef@chronozon.artofdns.com): > 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 :wq! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert L. Harris | GPG Key ID: E344DA3B @ x-hkp://pgp.mit.edu DISCLAIMER: These are MY OPINIONS ALONE. I speak for no-one else. Diagnosis: witzelsucht IPv6 = robert@ipv6.rdlg.net http://ipv6.rdlg.net IPv4 = robert@mail.rdlg.net http://www.rdlg.net
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