From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luca Berra Subject: Re: Redundancy check using "echo check > sync_action": error reporting? Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 08:36:10 +0200 Message-ID: <20080506063609.GA3412@percy.comedia.it> References: <20080320134747.GA28114@cthulhu.home.robinhill.me.uk> <47E2725C.1020206@tuxes.nl> <20080320163551.GG13719@mit.edu> <47E2EE64.5080101@rabbit.us> <47E3C504.3010700@tmr.com> <47E3CBAF.4090808@rabbit.us> <47E43E57.5010409@tmr.com> <20080321235557.GA11801@cthulhu.home.robinhill.me.uk> <47E4D95A.9000505@rabbit.us> <481D65FA.4090107@rabbit.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <481D65FA.4090107@rabbit.us> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 09:30:02AM +0200, Peter Rabbitson wrote: >I want to resurect this discussion with a peculiar observation - the above >mismatch was caused by GRUB. ... >I realized that my grub config contains a savedefault clause, which updates >the file on the raw ext3 volume before any raid assembly has taken place. >Executing grub-set-default from within a booted system (with a mounted >assembled raid) resulted in the subsequent md check to return 0 mismatches. this has been a long standing issue with grub 1.x hopefully some day grub 2 will be production ready and the issue will be forgoten (real md raid support for grub 2 was added in google SOC 2006). L. -- Luca Berra -- bluca@comedia.it Communication Media & Services S.r.l. /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN X AGAINST HTML MAIL / \