[ILUG] On the topic of RAID

[Colm MacCarthaigh]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 05:12:37PM +0100, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:
> I recently built an ext3 Linux software RAID array out of two shiny new 
> disks and PCI IDE card.
> 
> When I cat /proc/mdstat it says all is good, life is good.
> 
> If I'm lazy and don't properly shutdown the raid box, but instead just 
> nuke it via power switch, when I boot the box again and check out 
> /proc/mdstat I notice that the *entire* 80 gb is resynching.
> 
> Is this normal ? I suspect not.

It depends on your setup, but usually yes, that's perfectly normal.

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Colm MacCárthaigh                        Public Key: colm+pgp at stdlib.net