Re: No syncing after crash. Is this a software raid bug?

[Heinz Mauelshagen <mauelshagen@redhat.com>]

On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 02:16:11PM +0100, Kasper Dupont wrote:
> > If it relies on static page content during updates of its mirrors, it
> > need to take a private copy of the page(s).
> 
> And by that you mean that raid5 and raid6 must copy the page
> contents before writing it to disk?

Yes.
They need to do it anayway in order to calculate parity blocks.

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Regards,
Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --

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