On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, christophe leroy wrote:
> What does this means ? Where is the overlapping ?
>
> Christophe (Please CC answers to me, I'm not subscribed to the list)
>
> Dec 9 10:14:11 localhost kernel: md: serializing resync, md1 has
> overlapping physical units with md2!
It's saying that they share the same _disk_ (physical unit), not the same
partition. Don't feel bad - it's a common mis-understanding. :-)
It's just (apparently) trying to avoid thrashing the disk by syncing md
volumes that are using different partitions of the same disk(s)...
-Andy