[CentOS] Install Problems Centos 4.1

On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 11:48, Dan Pritts wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 03:55:25PM +0100, Peter Farrow wrote:
> > 
> > "Don't know whether I understand you correctly, but RAID1 array sync is
> > started with firstboot after the installation finished."
> > 
> > Err....no it doesn't.... it syncs the array as it installs, do a 
> > cntrl-alt-f3 when installing to bring a shell up then do a "watch cat 
> > /proc/mdstat"
> 
> I've observed this too.  Really irritating.

RAID1 has to sync as you create it - and if it doesn't complete and
shut down cleanly it will do it again on the first boot.  With
hardware that is reasonable to run as RAID1 it shouldn't be
noticeable.  Why is it irritating?

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  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com