I'm looking for a definitive answer and/or clarification to the following.
The raidctl manpage for the '-i' option says:

  "In particular, (re-)write the parity on the selected device.  This MUST be 
   done for all RAID sets before the RAID device is labeled and before file 
   systems are created on the RAID device."

I realize it may be a fine point, but does the initialization have to 
*finish* before the raid device can be used or is it sufficient to have 
merely started initialization?  I'm aware that I can manipulate the raid 
device, but is it safe to do so before initialization is complete?

-Jason

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