On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Hardware Stuff wrote:
> I noticed that top shows an mdrecoveryd process, it's existance
> puzzles me. Based on skimming the list about recent RAID5 changes, I
> had thought that such a process would only exist for reconstruction of
> a RAID5 disk set. While I did initially enable all RAID options, my
> recent kernel builds have been exclusively RAID0. /proc/mdstat
> confirms only a RAID0 personality.
>
> What does mdrecoveryd do for a RAID0 system? Perhaps the name is
> misleading?
you could load a RAID1/5 module later on ... but you are right, it could
be started dynamically too.
-- mingo
