From: Chris Fanning <christopher.fanning@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, May 21, 2007 at 05:08:47PM +0200 > Hi, > > I've got a couple of doubts. > > Since more than a year ago I setup mdadm raid1 on new instalations > (thanks for your work). > On the older machines, mdadm -D shows them in a dirty state. I know > that this is/was as expected. If there is a power cut, the machine > boots and a dirty array is resynced, ¿right? > > On newer installations, mdadm -D shows arrays in a clean state. I had > always thought that this was ok becuase I'd read somewhere that the > term 'dirty' was causing confusion and it got changed. > So, state: clean, is what I should expect? > If the newer machines have bitmaps on, the resync is generally faster than finishing booting - so when you can log in, the array is clean again. Do they use bitmaps? Kind regards, Jurriaan -- Look - either dualism sucks, or it doesn't. Debian (Unstable) GNU/Linux 2.6.21-mm2 2x4021 bogomips load load 3.73 the Jack Vance Integral Edition: http://www.integralarchive.org - 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
