Subject: Re: Multiple RAID1 partions on same disks
To: Greg Oster <oster@cs.usask.ca>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 08/30/2002 17:30:16
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Greg Oster wrote:

> > 	Would there be any utility in an option to postpone the raidctl -P
> > 	until after the fsck has been run on a disk? Somewhat compromises
> > 	redundancy in favour of getting the system running faster.
>
> Yes.  As much as it would be nice to have the "raidctl -P"'s done *before* the
> fsck, in practise it is better to delay the "raidctl -P"'s until after the
> system is up to multi-user... (or at least through the fsck and/or
> quota-checks).  Having fscks and quota-checks fighting with RAIDframe for disk
> bandwidth is not a good way to quickly bring a system up.
>
> If you're volunteering to write such an option, I say "go for it!" :)

	Presumably all we need to do is split the raidframe rc.d script
	into a second 'raidframeparity' which runs later?

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