From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Turbo Fredriksson Subject: Re: linux-raid compatable w/ Adaptec AIC-7902? Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 13:27:14 +0200 Message-ID: <87r7eex14d.fsf@pumba.bayour.com> References: <200506300210.j5U2Acp04142@www.watkins-home.com> <200506301014.11454.eric@pretorious.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200506301014.11454.eric@pretorious.net> (Eric Pretorious's message of "Thu, 30 Jun 2005 10:14:11 -0700") Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids >>>>> "Eric" == Eric Pretorious writes: Eric> On Wednesday 29 June 2005 07:10 pm, Guy wrote: >>> md: delaying resync of md0 until md2 has finished resync (they >>> share one or more physical units) md: delaying resync of md1 >>> until md2 has finished resync (they share one or more physical >>> units) ... >>> >>> Should I be concerned by the last two lines? >> No, this is normal. Your 3 arrays are on the same disk(s). In >> this case, it is faster to do them 1 at a time. Eric> Oh - I get it: md can only work on one RAID at a time Eric> because md0, md1, & md2 are all on sda & sdb (i.e., sda is Eric> mirrored on sdb). Thanks! I'm not DELIBERATELY trying to be rude here, but I want you to find the answer yourself... :) WHY are you putting multiple md's on the same disks? Did you intend to do something like this? md0 /boot sd[ab]1 md1 / sd[ab]2 md2 /usr sd[ab]3 md3 /var sd[ab]4 Just one question (this is the magic :). What do you gain by this? And why do you do it? -- Marxist Albanian quiche NSA critical FBI Honduras radar president cracking assassination FSF cryptographic DES Mossad [See http://www.aclu.org/echelonwatch/index.html for more about this]