Re: Redundancy check using "echo check > sync_action": error reporting?

[Luca Berra <bluca@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 09:30:02AM +0200, Peter Rabbitson wrote:
> I want to resurect this discussion with a peculiar observation - the above 
> mismatch was caused by GRUB.
...
> I realized that my grub config contains a savedefault clause, which updates 
> the file on the raw ext3 volume before any raid assembly has taken place. 
> Executing grub-set-default from within a booted system (with a mounted 
> assembled raid) resulted in the subsequent md check to return 0 mismatches. 
this has been a long standing issue with grub 1.x
hopefully some day grub 2 will be production ready and the issue will be
forgoten (real md raid support for grub 2 was added in google SOC 2006).

L.

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