From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe Subject: Re: No syncing after crash. Is this a software raid bug? Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 13:03:24 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20060301124432.GA3591@hactar.lan> <20060301215641.GA27042@hactar.lan> <20060303073016.GA662@hactar.lan> Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Kasper Dupont <70006427576745453539@expires.04.sep.2006.kasperd.net> wrote: >> Do you have write-cache enabled on the mirrors? > How do I find out about that? for 2.4 (although I belive to remember that the reporting is broken there) and IDE: grep -i ^wcache /proc/ide/hd*/settings >> that this always affects areas which are "free" on the filesystem layer. > Does the raid layer have any way to know if they are free and No, that's why I did put the free in quotes and did desribe how the "free" differs from "used" :) > So far I have only seen it happen on swap. I thought that might > be because that machine swaps a lot. Well, if it swaps a lot, my assumption could lead to different mirrors in that case too - supposed my assumption is true at all :) regards Mario -- Tower: "Say fuelstate." Pilot: "Fuelstate." Tower: "Say again." Pilot: "Again." Tower: "Arghl, give me your fuel!" Pilot: "Sorry, need it by myself..."