On Tuesday October 17, mangoo@xxxxxxxx wrote: > Neil Brown wrote: > > On Tuesday October 17, mangoo@xxxxxxxx wrote: > >> I just set up a new Debian unstable box. > >> It's running 2.6.18.1 kernel. > >> > >> I created RAID-1 on two disks, with no data or filesystem on it. > >> As I'm still experimenting with the box, I reboot it quite frequently. > >> > >> I noticed that RAID-1 resync starts from the very beginning after each > >> reboot. Is it normal? > > > > No. > > Has the resync finished when you shut down? > > No, it was still running. > Ok, so obviously it should start after a reboot, but maybe not at the very beginning. > > > How do you shut down? > > I simply type "reboot", so it should shutdown/reboot cleanly. > "should". Do you have kernel logs of the shutdown process? Do they mention md0 at all? > > > Can you post the kernel logs from boot up to when the resync has > > started? > > # dmesg|grep md > .... That looks OK except there is no md: resuming recovery of md0 from checkpoint as I would expect.... Are you creating the array with an internal bitmap? > > > (it has so many raid levels, as I'm still experimenting with it). > Experimentation is good!! It helps you find my bugs :-) NeilBrown - 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
