---Reply to mail from Patrick Rother about "question about reconstruction":
> Do "cat /proc/mdstat". It will tell you the percentage of completed
> reconstuction, and an estimated time to finish.
> If the percentage does not increase at all, and the time-to-finish increases
> all the time, it is possible that you kernel doesn't do any reconstruction
> at all, but the reconstution process hangs. I had this several time esp.
> with 2.2.12 and 2.2.13 kernels. 2.2.11 and 2.2.14 are ok.
What has to be done then? Is a reboot and therefore a restart of the
reconstruction process an option?
I plan to upgrade from old-style to new-style-raid, but on a 2.2.12 kernel.
Thomas
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Let the machine do the dirty work.
-- "Elements of Programming Style", Kernighan and Ritchie
