Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 19 Nov 2000 14:08:09 +0100 | From | Jasper Spaans <> | Subject | Re: What is 2.4.0-test10: md1 has overlapping physical units with md2! |
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On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 03:39:43AM -0800, George Garvey wrote: > Is this something to be concerned about? It sounds like a disaster waiting > to happen from the message. This is on 2 systems (with similar disk setups > [same other than size]).
> Nov 18 16:31:02 mwg kernel: md: serializing resync, md1 has overlapping physical units with md2!
Nope, nothing to worry about -- it's just a bad choice of wording ;)
What it means is that some partititions in md1 and md2 are on the same disk, and that the md-code will not do the reconstruction of these arrays in parallel [of course, for performance reasons].
Regards, -- Jasper Spaans <jasper@spaans.ds9a.nl> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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