Neil Brown wrote on Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 12:11:58PM +1100: > > When mdadm does auto-assemble an array that doesn't obviously belong to this > host, it tries to be careful and assembles it 'read-auto', which means that > it is completely read-only until you try to write to the array. So no > recovery or resync happens. > Once you write to the array, md assumes that you are happy to have the array > assembled on this device, and allows any resync etc to start. Speaking of which, are there any plans to do a true readonly mode? I missed that quite a few times. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@xxxxxxxx> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ -- 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