* Raimo Niskanen on Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 03:55:00PM +0200: > > I'm not sure that I understand you correctly, and don't want to make a > > statement about the merit of having raidctl running in the background > > while already operating again, but what about having
> > raidctl -P all & > > in /etc/rc? > IIRC that works just fine if you are willing to take the > risk of getting a broken raid in the event of a crash > / power outage during the backgrounded parity re-write. To be honest, I didn't yet think that far... :o) For clarity: Assuming that the first crash already did happen, and raidctl is happily rewriting it's parity data (in the foreground, while rc(8) waits for it), and the second crash strikes at *this* moment, won't the RAID be broken nonetheless, be it already operating or not? s//un
