On 10 Mar 2005, flame@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi, > > I have an installer (http://sourceforge.net/projects/terraformix/) that > creates Raid 1 arrays, previously the arrays were created with mkraid > using the --dangerous-no-resync option. I am now required to build the > arrays with mdadm and have the following questions ; > > 1) Is there an equivalent of --dangerous-no-resync in mdadm ? > > 2) Can I just go ahead and install onto a newly created RAID 1 array > without waiting for it to resync ? Yes. > 3) Can I just go ahead and install onto a newly created RAID 5 array > without waiting for it to resync ? Yes. Also, you can happily reboot while the resync is no progress with the full expectation that it will work correctly -- assemble, then take up the resync process again -- when your machine restarts. I have had no problems with this at all, despite doing a large number of installs onto both of those RAID levels. Also, the Debian installer for testing/unstable makes the assumption that this will "just work" in the RAID component -- at least, in so far as not taking any special care to avoid rebooting during the resync process. Regards, Daniel -- A large number of installed systems work by fiat. That is, they work by being declared to work. -- Anatol Holt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
