From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [172.16.48.31]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l6O1ihOZ007813 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:44:43 -0400 Received: from mail.bmsi.com (www.bmsi.com [24.248.44.156]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l6O1igft012722 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:44:42 -0400 Received: from bmsred.bmsi.com (bmsred.bmsi.com [192.168.9.50]) by mail.bmsi.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l6O1ibHB017846 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:44:37 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bmsred.bmsi.com (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id l6O1iaOo007365 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:44:36 -0400 Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:44:36 -0400 (EDT) From: "Stuart D. Gathman" Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Flexible storga: LVM setup on top of mdadm sets. Good idea or not? In-Reply-To: <20070723072320.GB30790@percy.comedia.it> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: LVM general discussion and development On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Luca Berra wrote: > On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 02:57:33PM -0400, Stuart D. Gathman wrote: > >The main drawback to md raid1 is that it always resynchronizes > >the *entire* partition when a disk goes offline temporarily. I also > False. md uses bitmaps to avoid this. The LVM mirroring uses bitmaps. Are you sure md raid does? Since what version? -- Stuart D. Gathman Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154 "Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis" - background song for a Microsoft sponsored "Where do you want to go from here?" commercial.