Just my 2 cents but were it not for the initial resync last week, I may have never known that my RAID was shafted. sure, once it synced, it took two hours, but that is a price I am willing to pay... *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 7/1/2003 at 12:03 AM Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: >On 2003-06-30T14:34:51, > bmoon <bo@anthologysolutions.com> said: > >> Hi Neil & Raiders, >> >> I am not quite sure if we really need to resync the array at the time of >> RAID 1 or RAID 5 array creation. I tried and tested without RESYNC by >> modifying "case1" and "case2" from MDADM source below, I could not notice >> any problems or issues. > >It's necessary to ensure consistency of the RAID, so that later, you can >detect whether the RAID has scrambled some of your disk. > >Otherwise, you'd never know whether it wouldn't still be an artifact >leftover from the creation of the array. > >Another option would be a bitmap of used chunks so you could tell one >from the other, but that wouldn't make as much sense on a heavily used >array. So just initialize it once. > > >Sincerely, > Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de> > >-- >SuSE Labs - Research & Development, SuSE Linux AG > >"If anything can go wrong, it will." "Chance favors the prepared (mind)." > -- Capt. Edward A. Murphy -- Louis Pasteur >- >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 /\/\/\/\/\/\ Nothing is foolproof to a talented fool. /\/\/\/\/\/\ coreyfro@coreyfro.com http://www.coreyfro.com/ http://stats.distributed.net/rc5-64/psummary.php3?id=196879 ICQ : 3168059 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- GCS d--(+) s: a-- C++++$ UBL++>++++ P+ L+ E W+++$ N+ o? K? w++++$>+++++$ O---- !M--- V- PS+++ PE++(--) Y+ PGP- t--- 5(+) !X- R(+) !tv b-(+) Dl++(++++) D++ G+ e>+++ h++(---) r++>+$ y++*>$ H++++ n---(----) p? !au w+ v- 3+>++ j- G'''' B--- u+++*** f* Quake++++>+++++$ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ Home of Geek Code - http://www.geekcode.com/ The Geek Code Decoder Page - http://www.ebb.org/ungeek// - 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
