Re: debian-installer and software RAID

2008-01-27 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Russell Coker] If the mdadm command that was used for the Debian installer had -b internal appended then the bitmap feature would be used and recovery from some failure conditions would be much faster. Why not just enable it by default in the mdadm package? It would make sure those using

Re: debian-installer and software RAID

2008-01-27 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 06:10:17PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: A recent feature of Linux software RAID is a write intent bitmap. The purpose of this is that before writing to a section of disk the bitmap is altered to mark it as dirty. Then if the machine experiences a power failure or

Re: debian-installer and software RAID

2008-01-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.01.26.1410 +0700]: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=462617 I've filed a bug report about this at the above URL, but I'd like some input from the people on this list. I've never had a chance to try write intent bitmaps in

debian-installer and software RAID

2008-01-25 Thread Russell Coker
A recent feature of Linux software RAID is a write intent bitmap. The purpose of this is that before writing to a section of disk the bitmap is altered to mark it as dirty. Then if the machine experiences a power failure or other catastrophic event then when rebooted it will know that the