Re: Bug#415441: s2disk and raid

[Tim Dijkstra <newsuser@famdijkstra.org>]

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On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:37:53 -0500
Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz <rodrigo@nul-unu.com> wrote:


> On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 12:47:49AM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> > Neil Brown wrote:
> > > On Tuesday April 3, newsuser@famdijkstra.org wrote:
> > []
> > >> After the power cycle the kernel boots, devices are discovered, among
> > >> which the ones holding raid. Then we try to find the device that holds
> > >> swap in case of resume and / in case of a normal boot.
> > >>
> > >> Now comes a crucial point. The script that finds the raid array, finds
> > >> the array in an unclean state and starts syncing.
> > []
> > > So you can start arrays 'readonly', and resume off a raid1 without any
> > > risk of the the resync starting when it shouldn't.
> > 

> Something that I seem to not have said. It's not *all* arrays that are
> unclean on reboot, just one (that is used as physical volume for
> LVM. I don't know if that's relevant). Also worth mentioning is that
> kernel space suspend on 2.6.17 did not have this problem (or didn't
> show it in my system, anyways).
> 
> After reading through the responses, I have come to think this is a
> kernel issue, and have posted a report (#418823) to debian's linux-2.6
> package. I'll wait to see what they have to say.

Maybe there is a kernel issue, but we still are doing something wrong;
We shouldn't try to write to raid before we resume, that is just asking
for problems.

I'll look into the `readonly' option. That would fix or problem IMHO.

grts Tim

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