From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?B?VG9yIEFybmUgVmVzdGLDuA==?= Subject: Re: RAID5 in sync does not populate slots sequentially, shows array as (somewhat) faulty Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 11:58:30 +0100 Message-ID: <47CD2B56.5040403@gmail.com> References: <47CBD62E.7040608@rabbit.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <47CD2A03.6010408@rabbit.us> References: <47CD279F.2070500@gmail.com> References: <47CD2A03.6010408@rabbit.us> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Peter Rabbitson wrote: >> Tor Arne Vestb=F8 wrote: >> [...] so I shredded them both using 'shred -n 1' and reinstalled. >=20 > This is irrelevant to 1.x superblocks, and largely insignificant for = 0.9=20 > superblocks (baring some really bizzare cases). In either case mdadm=20 > --zero-superblock /dev/XX (possibly executed multiple times) would sa= ve=20 > you a lot of disk churning :) The only way to learn is the hard way ;) Tor Arne -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html