From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roman Mamedov Subject: Re: External bitmap, questions Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:32:46 +0500 Message-ID: <20110219173246.72a6aaca@natsu> References: <20110219154924.2218c87c@notabene.brown> <20110219171437.3a6200e6@natsu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/Cg2i4refBp7yCrXKsAx4aoP"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Mathias =?UTF-8?B?QnVyw6lu?= Cc: NeilBrown , Linux-RAID List-Id: linux-raid.ids --Sig_/Cg2i4refBp7yCrXKsAx4aoP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:20:41 +0000 Mathias Bur=C3=A9n wrote: > I ended up storing the bitmap on my root filesystem (ext4) for now. > It's currently at the default size but I think I'll recreate it with > 64MB size. Thing is, the root filesystem is initially mounted read-only, after that perhaps fsck is executed if needed, and only a bit later it is remounted read-write. You need to check at which point in this process your distro's boot scripts initialize md arrays, and whether or not you will end up trying to do that with their bitmaps on a read-only FS. --=20 With respect, Roman --Sig_/Cg2i4refBp7yCrXKsAx4aoP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk1fuG8ACgkQTLKSvz+PZwjQgACggT2U9qN+J5eFsPFvxSKXm2k0 g9gAnRq5wmuM/CPL8+IxknIjypvNOA2l =0TtO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/Cg2i4refBp7yCrXKsAx4aoP--