David Greaves wrote:
I don't really see that it's "safer" though. I would have thought it was
quicker but potentially less safe.
Avoiding a lot of time stress testing the disks in degraded mode isn't 'safer'?
Stress testing the disks by an md rebuild is a feature! It increases
confidence that they work.
;)
Seriously, I understand your point now. Yes, a rebuild-free partition
resize would be a nice feature. So would a "help, please find my
superblock by exhaustive scanning" utility ;)
Jules
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