Re: Possible availability improvement

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On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, MichaÅ Sawicz wrote:

When things in md-world break, there's usually some big and long strain
on the array members. My colleague's idea is to virtually split the
members into smaller chunks and keep some metadata (events, checksum?)
for each of them to reduce the extent of recovery needed when faced
with, say, a power failure.

Does that make sense?

Yes.

Look in the documentation for "write intent bitmap".

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@xxxxxxxxx

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