FC3 T1 Raid Installs

Si Jones si at bananas.hopto.org
Fri Aug 6 16:01:02 UTC 2004


Alexandre Oliva wrote:

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>Right.  There's a bug in bugzilla about the kernel marking RAID
>devices that are scheduled to begin the initial synchronization, or
>even that begin it, but that don't have time to complete it, as if
>they had completed, such that they don't get fully synced if there's a
>reboot in between.  Since mdadm creates RAID devices in a way that is
>equivalent to creating a degraded array and then completing it with
>redundant devices (as opposed to mkraid's approach that created
>complete raid devices just in need of a resync), this bug hits when
>using mdadm to create the raid device.  This is a very serious bug
>IMHO, but it has never been looked into, to the best of my knowledge.
>
>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=116685
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Think you are right on this Alexandre, because of the reboot the mirror 
is not synced,
but i was trying to get at the fact that an enhancement to anaconda so 
it knows when the
array is synced would stop this?





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