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Subject: Re: RAID5 initial resync: faster vs more secure
From: Neil Brown <neilb () suse ! de>
Date: 2008-03-25 5:15:43
Message-ID: 18408.35455.355616.973487 () notabene ! brown
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On Thursday March 20, hubskml@free.fr wrote:
> Hi list
>
> Each time I create a RAID5 array, by default, as a degraded array with a
> spare, I cannot stop and restart the array unless the initial resync has
> completed. If I do so, the resync is not resumed when the array is
> re-assembled.
> Is this due to the fact that one disk is a spare, but md actually
> doesn't know which of the disks is the spare one ?
No. It is due to that fact that the v0.90 metadata has no convenient
place to record how far the recovery has progressed.
If you use --metadata=1 when creating the array, it will be able to
record the status of incomplete recovery and restart is properly.
NeilBrown
>
> Assuming that there is no bug and no workaround about this issue, I
> think the following: when one cannot guarantee the array won't be
> stopped until the resync completes, one should better create the RAID5
> array with the -f option. Indeed, when I use -f, I can stop the array
> and restart it, the resync will be resumed where it had stopped.
> The cost of this is that the initial resync runs slower.
>
> Comments are welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> Hubert
>
> PS: the reshape patch from Neil on 03/03/08 does not fix the issue.
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