From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Guntsche Subject: Re: Strange RAID-5 rebuild problem Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 13:38:55 +0100 Message-ID: References: <18379.18272.464486.925011@notabene.brown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <18379.18272.464486.925011@notabene.brown> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 11:33:36 +1100, Neil Brown wrote: > Yes. > This bug is fixed by the following patch which I have just sent of for > inclusion in mainline. > The patches talks about "reshape" but it applies to "resync" too. > > The workaround is to "mdadm -w" before the first write. Thank you very much Neil. I applied the patch on my system and now resyncing starts automatically if you start writing to the RAID. Kind regards, Michael