From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brown Subject: Re: clarifying what can be done during resync Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:55:42 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20110627154729.521e875a@notabene.brown> 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@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids The whole point of raid is to minimize downtime - that means that if a disk fails, you can remove it, replace it, and resync while everything is running (albeit a bit slower). On 27/06/2011 14:35, Sandra Escandor wrote: > Thanks for clarifying, Neil. I actually came across this on someone's > blog explaining how they got RAID10 (with imsm metadata) up and running, > and he mentions that he made sure to wait until resync was done before > mounting. I did the same thing, thinking that maybe I might break > something if I didn't. > > Sandra > > -----Original Message----- > From: NeilBrown [mailto:neilb@suse.de] > Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 1:47 AM > To: Sandra Escandor > Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: clarifying what can be done during resync > > On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:38:06 -0400 "Sandra Escandor" > > wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Just wanted to make sure if this was a myth or not: Is it true that > when >> an array is in resync status, then mounting it is not at all possible? >> > > Pure myth. Where did you hear it? > > Best approach is to try .. if it is not at all possible, then it won't > work. > But in fact it does :-) > > NeilBrown > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >