On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 06:14:01PM +0100, Corin Hartland-Swann wrote:
> Do you know /why/ the swap breaks on reconstruction?
yes, it is because raid reconstruction goes through the buffer cache,
while swap bypasses the buffer cache and goes directly to the lower layer.
> Surely while it's reconstructing, and read/write requests to the device
> are passed to the good remaining device.
i believe reads goes to the good devices, while writes go to all devices
> This would mean that behaviour is the same for a degraded mirror as for a
> reconstructing mirror.
no
> Does this mean that swap would not only fail during reconstruction, but
> also under degraded mode?
again no
Regards,
Luca
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