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From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Q: imsm rapid recovery volume
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 16:27:00 +1000
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On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 08:02:06 +0200 Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 05:27:14PM -0700, Jiang, Dave wrote:
> >Linux IMSM does not support Rapid Recovery. That is a Windows IMSM feature.
> 
> Sorry for necromancy.
> 
> Is there any plan to implement this feature in mdadm,
> or any reason not to?

The core functionality is available for native md via bitmaps are re-add.
But you have to manage it yourself.

I know of know plans to add any support for this functionality with IMSM
metadata - the current focus seems to be getting the bugs out of OnLine
Capacity Expansion.

NeilBrown


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> Thanks in advance and regards,
> L.
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