Re: Kernel 2.6.23.9 + mdadm 2.6.2-2 + Auto rebuild RAID1?

[Justin Piszcz]

On Sat, 1 Dec 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

> On Dec 1 2007 07:12, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> > On Sat, 1 Dec 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > > On Dec 1 2007 06:19, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> > >
> > > > RAID1, 0.90.03 superblocks (in order to be compatible with LILO, if
> > > > you use 1.x superblocks with LILO you can't boot)
> > >
> > > Says who? (Don't use LILO ;-)
> >
> > I like LILO :)
>
> LILO cares much less about disk layout / filesystems than GRUB does,
> so I would have expected LILO to cope with all sorts of superblocks.
> OTOH I would suspect GRUB to only handle 0.90 and 1.0, where the MDSB
> is at the end of the disk <=> the filesystem SB is at the very beginning.
>
> > > > So two questions:
> > > >
> > > > 1) If it rebuilt by itself, how come it only rebuilt /dev/md0?
> > >
> > > So md1/md2 was NOT rebuilt?
> >
> > Correct.
>
> Well it should, after they are readded using -a.
> If they still don't, then perhaps another resync is in progress.

There was nothing in progress, md0 was synced up and md1,md2 = degraded.
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