My observation was it never used to this until version 4.... P. eli at streetlampsoftware.com wrote: > 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. ;) > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos