From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Robinson Subject: Re: mdadm message (auto-read-only) on "/dev/md1" = swap file system Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:59:57 +0100 Message-ID: <4A3002AD.60103@anonymous.org.uk> References: <2b91784d0906101010l409c38d2m8d0e7401c454307f@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Linux RAID List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 10/06/2009 18:30, Steven Haigh wrote: > On 11/06/2009, at 3:10 AM, Ing. Jair wrote: [...] >> md1 : active (auto-read-only) raid1 hde2[0] hdg2[1] >> 2634560 blocks [2/2] [UU] [...] >> My question for this is: >> >> 1. Is this the way suppose to work on the device md1 = swap filesystem >> raid? > > I believe the array will stay read-only until the first write is > performed - at which time the array will automatically switch to > read/write. I think so too; the boss said something similar about a month ago: http://marc.info/?l=linux-raid&m=124178553609572&w=2 To the OP: what problem are you experiencing? Cheers, John.