On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 02:23:51PM -0700, Herb Peyerl wrote:
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>  wrote:
>  > What I've done is to make /etc/rc.d/raidframe run after fsck (no problems as
>  > I only use autoconfig). This way the rebuild (run in background anyway)
>  > doesn't compete with fsck for disk access. This speeds things up a lot.
> 
> That's a good idea.  I also discovered that if you "reboot" instead of
> "shutdown -r now", then your parity will _always_ be DIRTY.  for me, 
> "reboot" is such a habit.

Yes, because swap isn't turned off (and so the device isn't closed).
What I do is have a small raid as root + swap, and another one for all
the other stuffs. This way parity gets rebuild in a few seconds.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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