It means the partitions exist on the same physical disk so it would be
detrimental to attempt to synchronize them in parallel.
Kevin C.
>
> What do these messages mean? I get them in my /var/log/messages every once
> in a while (but not at boot).
>
>
> It appears to be saying that my partitions overlap one another but
> that isn't the case.
>
> >md: syncing RAID array md5
> >md: minimum _guaranteed_ reconstruction speed: 100 KB/sec.
> >md: using maximum available idle IO bandwith for reconstruction.
> >md: using 128k window.
> >md: serializing resync, md3 has overlapping physical units with md5!
> >md: serializing resync, md2 has overlapping physical units with md5!
> >md: serializing resync, md1 has overlapping physical units with md5!
> >md: md5: sync done.
> >md: syncing RAID array md1
> >md: minimum _guaranteed_ reconstruction speed: 100 KB/sec.
> >md: using maximum available idle IO bandwith for reconstruction.
> >md: using 128k
> >md: serializing resync, md3 has overlapping physical units with md1!
> >md: serializing resync, md2 has overlapping physical units with md1!
> >md: md1: sync done.
> >md: syncing RAID array md2
> >md: minimum _guaranteed_ reconstruction speed: 100 KB/sec.
> >md: using maximum available idle IO bandwith for reconstruction.
> >md: using 128k
> >md: serializing resync, md3 has overlapping physical units with md2!
> >md: md2: sync done.
> >md: syncing RAID array md3
> >md: minimum _guaranteed_ reconstruction speed: 100 KB/sec.
> >md: using maximum available idle IO bandwith for reconstruction.
> >md: using 128k window.
>
>
>
>
> thanks,
>
> paul
>
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