On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 02:03:21PM +0200, David Lamparter wrote: > lvconvert --type raid1 -m 1 eidolon/root > lvchange --writemostly /dev/sda4:y --writebehind 32768 eidolon/root [...] > The raid1 was still initialising (around 20%) when I executed the second > command, output from /sys/block/*/stat leads me to believe the sync direction > was inverted from the newly-added device to the existing one. [...] > [950580.682165] mdX: bitmap initialized from disk: read 4 pages, set 98948 of 122880 bits A quick disk inspection with dd/hexdump indicates that garbage starts around 19.5%, which lines up with "98948 of 122880" above. -David -- 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