>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Pretorious <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: Eric> On Wednesday 29 June 2005 07:10 pm, Guy wrote: >>> md: delaying resync of md0 until md2 has finished resync (they >>> share one or more physical units) md: delaying resync of md1 >>> until md2 has finished resync (they share one or more physical >>> units) ... >>> >>> Should I be concerned by the last two lines? >> No, this is normal. Your 3 arrays are on the same disk(s). In >> this case, it is faster to do them 1 at a time. Eric> Oh - I get it: md can only work on one RAID at a time Eric> because md0, md1, & md2 are all on sda & sdb (i.e., sda is Eric> mirrored on sdb). Thanks! I'm not DELIBERATELY trying to be rude here, but I want you to find the answer yourself... :) WHY are you putting multiple md's on the same disks? Did you intend to do something like this? md0 /boot sd[ab]1 md1 / sd[ab]2 md2 /usr sd[ab]3 md3 /var sd[ab]4 Just one question (this is the magic :). What do you gain by this? And why do you do it? -- Marxist Albanian quiche NSA critical FBI Honduras radar president cracking assassination FSF cryptographic DES Mossad [See http://www.aclu.org/echelonwatch/index.html for more about this] - 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