Re: No syncing after crash. Is this a software raid bug?

[Heinz Mauelshagen <mauelshagen@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 12:18:35PM +0100, Kasper Dupont wrote:
> On 07/03/06 11.47, Heinz Mauelshagen wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 02:16:11PM +0100, Kasper Dupont wrote:
> > > > If it relies on static page content during updates of its mirrors, it
> > > > need to take a private copy of the page(s).
> > > 
> > > And by that you mean that raid5 and raid6 must copy the page
> > > contents before writing it to disk?
> > 
> > Yes.
> > They need to do it anayway in order to calculate parity blocks.
> 
> OK, I'll do some testing with raid5 then. I want to know if it
> behaves differently from raid1 in this respect.

Have you got results yet ?

Heinz

> 
> -- 
> Kasper Dupont -- Rigtige mænd skriver deres egne backupprogrammer
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Heinz Mauelshagen                                 Red Hat GmbH
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