Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 19 Nov 2000 14:51:04 +0200 | From | Matti Aarnio <> | 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]).
Nothing to worry. (I got worried also when I saw it the first time)
> Nov 18 16:31:02 mwg kernel: md: serializing resync, md0 has overlapping physical units with md2!
It is perhaps poorly worded -- multiple MD "devices" using same physical devices, although they are not on overlapped partitions, do get that message.
It means simply that if those two were running reconstruction simultaneously, they would cause seeking back&forth over the device. - 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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