From: Jules Bean <jules@jellybean.co.uk>
To: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: After partition resize, RAID5 array does not assemble on boot
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:14:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48469523.4050601@jellybean.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <484681AF.8030004@dgreaves.com>
David Greaves wrote:
>> I don't really see that it's "safer" though. I would have thought it was
>> quicker but potentially less safe.
>
> Avoiding a lot of time stress testing the disks in degraded mode isn't 'safer'?
Stress testing the disks by an md rebuild is a feature! It increases
confidence that they work.
;)
Seriously, I understand your point now. Yes, a rebuild-free partition
resize would be a nice feature. So would a "help, please find my
superblock by exhaustive scanning" utility ;)
Jules
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-04 13:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-03 6:49 After partition resize, RAID5 array does not assemble on boot Jules Bean
2008-06-03 21:19 ` Jules Bean
2008-06-03 21:27 ` NeilBrown
2008-06-04 6:31 ` Jules Bean
2008-06-04 6:36 ` Peter Rabbitson
2008-06-04 7:58 ` David Greaves
2008-06-04 8:30 ` Jules Bean
2008-06-04 11:51 ` David Greaves
2008-06-04 13:14 ` Jules Bean [this message]
2008-06-06 13:52 ` Bill Davidsen
2008-06-06 14:42 ` David Greaves
2008-06-06 14:46 ` Jules Bean
2008-06-12 3:59 ` Neil Brown
2008-06-03 21:46 ` Peter Rabbitson
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