Re: why a bitmap file never changes?

[Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>]

Tomasz Chmielewski schrieb:

> The date of the file is the date of creation of this array, and as I 
> look inside, it's basically almost empty. When looking in a hex editor, 
> zeroes (+bitm etc.)at the beginning, and than FF to the end.
> 
> 
> Is it normal?

Here is some more info about the bitmap itself - it's 100% dirty, what 
does it mean?

# mdadm -X /root/backup-bitmap
         Filename : /root/backup-bitmap
            Magic : 6d746962
          Version : 4
             UUID : 00000000.00000000.00000000.00000000
           Events : 0
   Events Cleared : 0
            State : OK
        Chunksize : 1 MB
           Daemon : 5s flush period
       Write Mode : Allow write behind, max 256
        Sync Size : 658800640 (628.28 GiB 674.61 GB)
           Bitmap : 643360 bits (chunks), 643360 dirty (100.0%)


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