On 2005-03-14T15:43:52, Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi there, just a question about how the bitmap stuff works with 1++-redundancy, say RAID1 with 2 mirrors, or RAID6. One disk fails and is replaced/reattached, and resync begins. Now another disk fails and is replaced. Is the bitmap local to each disk? And in case of RAID1, with 4 disks (and two of them resyncing), could disk3 be rebuild from disk1 and disk4 from disk2 (as to optimize disk bandwidth)? Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@xxxxxxx> -- High Availability & Clustering SUSE Labs, Research and Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - A Novell Business - 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