> On 11/11/2009 08:53, Leslie Rhorer wrote: > [...] > > It took me less than 3 minutes total to implement the explicit mount > > routine on both servers, and unless someone can give me either a much > better > > solution or a solid reason I should not take this approach > > The only problem I can see is that your bitmap is not on a RAID device > so if the disc goes you lose the bitmap. I guess you're accepting the True, but since the OS is also on the drive, if it goes I will need to shut down the system anyway. > risk of downtime anyway because your filesystem root is on a non-RAID > device, but while you can (as I think you've said before) replace the > boot disc quickly, you're exposing yourself to a long, slow resync which > will increase your downtime by perhaps days... That presumes a loss of the boot drive *AND* one or two RAID drives. That's pretty unlikely, unless something really nasty happens. The boot drives are not on the same controller or in the same enclosure. They aren't even the same type of drive. The boot drives are PATA drives inside the same enclosure as the respective motherboards. The RAID drives are SATA drives in external RAID enclosures. Right now, a non-bitmap resync takes about a day and a half, if I limit array access. -- 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
