On 16-04-13 11:59, Robin Dong wrote:
Dear Raid experts,
I have a soft RAID5 volume and after one disk failed I replaced it with
a new hard-disk. Then the raid5 volume begin to resync with WHOLE new
disk.
There is only 1G data in the RAID5 volume so I think resync whole disk
is not efficient.
The md driver however does not know this. It syncs everything.
Having said that, how do you know there's only 1 GB in use? Maybe there
is a hidden partition for the remainder of the disk? Or, maybe it houses
a encrypted container and in that container a nother encrpyted
countainer (check truecrypt on deniability).
Fact is, you do not know how much data is or is not used, well not for sure.
Take ZFS for example, when replacing with a new disk, it only resync the
data which are written after the creation of the volume.
but md is only the raid layer, zfs is the lower layer AND the
filesystem, you can't really fairly compare them. Btrfs may do this, but
I don't know and don't think it's ready as replacement yet anyway.
Is there any method to just resync WRITTEN data to new-added-disk ? Or
any developing plan to add this feature?
I highly doubt it, since, as said above, the md layer could not ever
possibly know what data is on the disk.
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