[CentOS] CentOS 7 : create RAID arrays manually using mdadm --create ?

Wed Feb 11 04:12:28 UTC 2015
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

On 2/10/2015 6:54 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> Why I avoid swap on md raid 1/10 is because of the swap caveats listed
> under man 4 md. Is possible for a page in memory to change between the
> writes to the two md devices such that the mirrors are in fact
> different. The man page only suggests this makes scrub check results
> unreliable, and that such a difference wouldn't be read (?) But I
> don't understand this. So I just avoid it because I haven't thoroughly
> tested it.

if its possible for that to happen, then the whole swapping AND mdraid 
mechanisms in linux are badly broken.



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