Les Mikesell wrote: > 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? > It halts the install of packages until the sync is done for the / mount points. (/var/ /bin/ /etc/ ..) As a mount is required, it snycs the drives. Later, when installing the files in /boot, it syncs that too. Basically, it is lots of waiting with what looks like a frozen task bar. The waiting is the pain. ;)