[ILUG] On the topic of RAID

[Niall O'Higgins]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 05:12:37PM +0100, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:
> If I'm lazy and don't properly shutdown the raid box, but instead just 
> nuke it via power switch, when I boot the box again and check out 
> /proc/mdstat I notice that the *entire* 80 gb is resynching.
> 
> Is this normal ? I suspect not.

It needs to correct the RAID parity. Running RAID with dirty parity would
be very bad.

// Niall.