Re: AARGH! Please help. IDE controller fsckup

[Jakob Oestergaard <jakob@unthought.net>]

[snipping CC]

On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 01:05:44PM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> 
> One of the observed issues under raid-tools is not looking at all the
> devices' superblocks.  This would allow for out of order initialization.
> Treating the devices as domino chips and stuffing them back in random
> order and it working.

Have you seen this happening?  With non-development kernels?  ;)

There was one issue with raid startup that wouldn't start up arrays if
the first disk of the array was missing, or something like that. It was
a long-standing bug but it has been fixed.

I have not heard of the problem you're reporting.

> 
> If I am wrong here, great.  Somebody please make the correction.

Now is the time for someone out there to actually point out that error
which I blissfully ignored and which ruined their TB array of medical
records...   ;)

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