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: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 14:38:43 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20060301124432.GA3591@hactar.lan> <20060301215641.GA27042@hactar.lan> <20060303073016.GA662@hactar.lan> <20060303144824.GA15672@hactar.lan> <20060304131609.GA4064@erwin.lan> Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Kasper Dupont <10616252720827252562@expires.05.sep.2006.kasperd.net> wrote: > And by that you mean that raid5 and raid6 must copy the page > contents before writing it to disk? They must not :) But if they don't, they risk inconsistent parity information to be calculated. However, since "inconsistent parity information in raid[456] is equal to "different mirrors" in raid1, there is no real difference. So I doubt they will copy :) regards Mario -- Oh well, config one actually wonders what force in the universe is holding it and makes it working chances and accidents :)