On 2006-02-20 at 07:48:01, James W. Laferriere wrote: > How hard would it be for mdadm & md to allow use of both internal > and external bitmaps ? And then mdadm be extended to do a compare > of an external against a internal when the opertaor askes to do > so . Soes this sound reasonable ? Thoughts ? Can you explain a bit more what would it be useful? As I understand the concept (which may be quite different from the reality and/or implementation), the bitmap of the "most up-to-date" component is used to determine what updates the other component is missing. (What to do in the case of multi-way, arbitrarily removed mirrors is above my head :) In that scheme, I don't see any use of a bitmap which is not "connected" to any available sub-component. Janos - 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
