[CentOS] Software RAID1 issue

Wed Dec 27 17:35:24 UTC 2006
Gerald Waugh <gwaugh at frontstreetnetworks.com>

> Quoting Gerald Waugh <gwaugh at frontstreetnetworks.com>:
> 
> >
> > When a new system CentOS-4.4 is built the swap partition is always 
> > reversed...
> 
> > [root]# cat /proc/mdstat
> > Personalities : [raid1]
> > md3 : active raid1 hda3[0] hdc3[1]
> >       1000320 blocks [2/2] [UU]
> 
> It's totally unimportant in which order you see them in 
> /proc/mdstat.   
> It's just the order kernel module detected them.  There's really no  
> "first" or "second" device here.  They are equal.  It's just 
> that when  
> printing them out, one of them had to be printed out first.  
> So, they  
> are not "reversed" regardless of the output of "cat /proc/mdstat".   
> Simply because there no such thing as "reversed" ;-)

Thanks, 
I was mistakem, "hda3" is [0] and hdc3 is [1]
I thought they were reversed, they are just listed in reverse order.

Gerald