On Fri Apr 08, 2011 at 05:40:46PM -0700, Linux Raid Study wrote:
> What I'm not sure of is if the device is newly formatted, would raid
> recovery happen? What else could explain difference in the first run
> of IO benchmark?
>
When an array is first created, it's created in a degraded state - this
is the simplest way to make it available to the user instantly. The
final drive(s) are then automatically rebuilt, calculating the
parity/data information as normal for recovering a drive.
Cheers,
Robin
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