[CoLoCo] SATA RAID controller

TC telecon at infosyndicate.net
Wed Mar 5 03:29:26 GMT 2008


No. Keep an eye on /proc/mdstat  That will tell you how in sync the two
mirrors are.

Once they are in sync, the contents will be identical, and if one drive
fails, the md device will continue to function with out any user
intervention at all.


Jim Hutchinson wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 8:19 PM, TC <telecon at infosyndicate.net
> <mailto:telecon at infosyndicate.net>> wrote:
> 
>     Yep, it's syncing the data from sda to sdb.
> 
>     You can either do the same for the other md device now, or wait until
>     the first sync is finished.
> 
> 
> Cool. Thanks for the help. Glad to have finally worked this out (without
> having to reinstall). Is there a command like df that will show the
> space used on the mirror drive kind of as a check? df only shows md0 and
> md1 but not the counterparts on /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdb2
> 
> Thanks again.
> -jim
> 
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