Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Neil Brown <> | | Date | Mon, 2 Feb 2004 15:46:49 +1100 | | Subject | Re: RAID arrays not reconstructing in 2.6 |
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On Sunday February 1, dan@debian.org wrote: > I saw this a couple of weeks ago in a 2.6.0-test kernel, and today in > 2.6.2-rc3. When I have to hit the hard reset button on my desktop, whose > root filesystem is RAID5 on /dev/md0, it comes back up cleanly - no > reconstruction.
Cool, isn't it!
> > Have we gotten a whole lot more enthusiastic about marking superblocks clean > lately, or should I be worried? Obviously this always used to trigger > reconstruction, until recently.
Yes. Lots more enthusiastic. If there is no write activity for 20msec, we mark the superblock clean and write it out, and are careful to write out a dirty superblock before allowing another write to complete.
NeilBrown
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