[ Tuesday, February 29, 2000 ] Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Peter Pregler wrote:
> > All is fine but during reconstruction I get a few syslog-messages that I
> > simply cannot believe are true. The message in question are:
> >
> > Feb 12 11:31:52 kludge kernel: md: serializing resync, md8 has overlapping
> > physical units with md9!
>
> Just means both md partitions have component partitions on the same drive
> - isn't this in the faq, Jakob? They have to be serialized because the
> bandwidth for sync is rather limited and it'd be thrashing to let the
> resync go by in parallel.
Or restated "you wouldn't want to bother with all the wasted seeks between
the two sections of disk, so you serialize the resyncs"
James
