From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 08:41:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 08:41:47 -0500 Received: from 3dyn88.com21.casema.net ([212.64.94.88]:26642 "HELO home.ds9a.nl") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 08:41:32 -0500 Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 14:08:09 +0100 From: Jasper Spaans To: George Garvey Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: What is 2.4.0-test10: md1 has overlapping physical units with md2! Message-ID: <20001119140809.A21693@spaans.ds9a.nl> In-Reply-To: <20001119033943.C935@inxservices.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001119033943.C935@inxservices.com>; from tmwg-linuxknl@inxservices.com on Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 03:39:43AM -0800 Organization: http://www.insultant.nl/ X-Copyright: Copyright 2000 C. Jasper Spaans - All Rights Reserved Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 03:39:43AM -0800, George Garvey wrote: > Is this something to be concerned about? It sounds like a disaster waiting > to happen from the message. This is on 2 systems (with similar disk setups > [same other than size]). > Nov 18 16:31:02 mwg kernel: md: serializing resync, md1 has overlapping physical units with md2! Nope, nothing to worry about -- it's just a bad choice of wording ;) What it means is that some partititions in md1 and md2 are on the same disk, and that the md-code will not do the reconstruction of these arrays in parallel [of course, for performance reasons]. Regards, -- Jasper Spaans - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/