From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Robert L. Harris" Subject: Re: Software RAID level 1 issue Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 17:44:57 -0400 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030530214457.GT20195@rdlg.net> References: <1054403067.14818.280.camel@testlin.hades> <3ED7B898.4409555F@SteelEye.com> <1054409970.14937.296.camel@testlin.hades> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="+Yg8W10oK6rlW0RR" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1054409970.14937.296.camel@testlin.hades> To: Stef Telford Cc: Paul Clements , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids --+Yg8W10oK6rlW0RR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The problem I see and I believe I've had is when the box starts to boot up the system hangs durring the init script runs (pre-runlevel 3). At these times my system is busy hammering my raid arrays and will finally continue on to run level 3 once things are synced up. Thus spake Stef Telford (stef@chronozon.artofdns.com): > Paul Clements wrote: > > Stef Telford wrote: > >=20 > > [snip] > >=20 > > > during resync's on raid-1 the mirror will not be available.=20 > >=20 > > I'm not sure I understand this. md/raid1 devices are accessible while > > resync is occurring...albeit with lower I/O throughput since the resync > > is consuming bandwidth. > >=20 >=20 > The way i read the original posters question was > that he/she was trying to restart the faulted=20 > 'device', or rather was trying to re-activate the=20 > broken md device whilst the working copy was trying to > rebuild it. accessing the working copy should work, but > not the broken md (unless i have seriously misread > someplace :). Under raid5 or raid10, you can still=20 > access the broken md during a resync/rebuild, this > was what i thought the person was trying to do. >=20 > apologies if i misunderstood the original phrasing :) >=20 > regards=20 > Stef Telford >=20 > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html :wq! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert L. Harris | GPG Key ID: E344DA3B @ x-hkp://pgp.mit.edu=20 DISCLAIMER: These are MY OPINIONS ALONE. I speak for no-one else. Diagnosis: witzelsucht =09 IPv6 =3D robert@ipv6.rdlg.net http://ipv6.rdlg.net IPv4 =3D robert@mail.rdlg.net http://www.rdlg.net --+Yg8W10oK6rlW0RR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+19DZ8+1vMONE2jsRAluHAJ4tgRS/7ZnJXMVX1YhJ5q7od38QWACeKQte vETFXtdDMgrb5F+rEU1CiRo= =RIR9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+Yg8W10oK6rlW0RR--