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Date:      Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:03:30 +0100
From:      oxy <oxy@field.hu>
To:        Ulf Lilleengen <ulf.lilleengen@gmail.com>
Cc:        "Rick C. Petty" <rick-freebsd2008@kiwi-computer.com>, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Encrypting raid5 volume with geli
Message-ID:  <494236F2.5040803@field.hu>
In-Reply-To: <20081212083708.GA1455@carrot.studby.ntnu.no>
References:  <4940FF0F.2020404@field.hu> <20081211205659.GA72478@keira.kiwi-computer.com> <49419680.4010003@field.hu> <20081212040137.GA76422@keira.kiwi-computer.com> <20081212083708.GA1455@carrot.studby.ntnu.no>

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You mean that after every reboot i have to start the raid5 manually and 
re-sync?

Ulf Lilleengen írta:
> On tor, des 11, 2008 at 10:01:37pm -0600, Rick C. Petty wrote:
> *snip*
>   
>> There are a set of patches that lulf@ has which I believe put the volume in
>> "up" state initially instead of "down", but maybe it only works for
>> mirrors.  The code in current and RELENG_7 does initially put the volume in
>> "down" state.
>>
>>     
> Yes, it only works for mirrors, since I thought it doesn't really matter if a
> mirror is properly initialized, since the user need to put data into the
> mirror for it to be useful anyway. The same goes for RAID-5 I guess, but I
> was not sure if it might trigger some weird behaviour since parity would not
> match if reading the volume. I will test out a small modification I made,
> which removes the need to run 'gvinum start' on the raid5 plexes.
>
>   



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