On Wed, 5 May 1999, Paul Hancock wrote:
> After rebooting the machine, raid reconstruction started, and I received
> several messages, such as:
>
> md8 has overlapping physical units with md2!
> md7 has overlapping physical units with md2!
> md6 has overlapping physical units with md2!
> [...]
> md7 has overlapping physical units with md8!
> md6 has overlapping physical units with md8!
>
> I did not write down all the instances of this message.
I don't know about the rest of your problem, but I can explain these
messages. Baically they're harmless - just informational.
It's telling you that it won't attempt simultaneous reconstruction of
multiple virtual partitions whose member real partitions reside on the same
physical disk. I guess it's trying to avoid disk thrash...
It will reconstruct one md device and then another, and so on in this case.
-Andy
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