On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, paul wrote:
> What do these messages mean? I get them in my /var/log/messages every once
> in a while (but not at boot).
>
>
> It appears to be saying that my partitions overlap one another but
> that isn't the case.
>
> >md: syncing RAID array md5
> >md: minimum _guaranteed_ reconstruction speed: 100 KB/sec.
> >md: using maximum available idle IO bandwith for reconstruction.
> >md: using 128k window.
> >md: serializing resync, md3 has overlapping physical units with md5!
> >md: serializing resync, md2 has overlapping physical units with md5!
> >md: serializing resync, md1 has overlapping physical units with md5!
This just means that two arrays have partitions on the same _disk_. The
disk is the "physical unit".
It's just trying not to thrash the disk by reconstructing more than one
array on it at the same time...
-Andy
