From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jules Bean Subject: Re: After partition resize, RAID5 array does not assemble on boot Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:14:11 +0100 Message-ID: <48469523.4050601@jellybean.co.uk> References: <4844E994.8020808@jellybean.co.uk> <4845B573.7090801@jellybean.co.uk> <48675.192.168.1.70.1212528422.squirrel@neil.brown.name> <484636B9.20700@jellybean.co.uk> <48464B3A.7070206@dgreaves.com> <4846529B.1000809@jellybean.co.uk> <484681AF.8030004@dgreaves.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <484681AF.8030004@dgreaves.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: David Greaves Cc: NeilBrown , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids David Greaves wrote: >> I don't really see that it's "safer" though. I would have thought it was >> quicker but potentially less safe. > > Avoiding a lot of time stress testing the disks in degraded mode isn't 'safer'? Stress testing the disks by an md rebuild is a feature! It increases confidence that they work. ;) Seriously, I understand your point now. Yes, a rebuild-free partition resize would be a nice feature. So would a "help, please find my superblock by exhaustive scanning" utility ;) Jules