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
>
[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 usin
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
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 se
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