On 2005-03-15T09:54:52, Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It arbitrarily chooses one. It doesn't matter which. The code
> currently happens to choose the first, but this is not a significant choice.
True enough. I had a typical case of tomatoes. Thanks.
> > I think each disk needs to have it's own bitmap in the long run. On
> > start, we need to merge them.
>
> I think any scheme that involved multiple bitmaps would be introducing
> too much complexity. Certainly your examples sound very far fetched
> (as I think you admitted yourself). But I always try to be open to
> new ideas.
For single node operations, yes. But disks appearing and reappearing is
_mostly_ a cluster issue, and there it makes sense, because of the
potentially diverging data in case both sides activate the mirrors.
Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@xxxxxxx>
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High Availability & Clustering
SUSE Labs, Research and Development
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - A Novell Business
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