Too much time wasted installing fedora on raid1

Arjan van de Ven arjan at fenrus.demon.nl
Tue Dec 20 09:46:18 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 11:56 +0300, Paul P Komkoff Jr wrote:
> Replying to Arjan van de Ven:
> > > So, to boot without changing bios settings back and forth (or without
> > > disabling 1st disk drive by any other means) it is nesessary to wait
> > > while md1 raid1 resyncs, which can be as long as 2 hours (250GB HDD).
> > 
> > I'm pretty sure that anaconda at some point deliberately did things to
> > avoid that sync. So I suspect it got reenabled for a good reason...
> 
> There's nothing wrong in sync itself, but the order.
> If /boot will be synched first then it will be safe to reboot as soon
> as actual installation is complete (and root volume reconstruction can
> happen later)

well... if the root is brand spanking new.. why would it need a sync?




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