Re: How to force stopping an array`

[Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday May 27, jpiszcz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >>> Exactly. reboot pretty much deosn't do any good, afterwars the raid
> >>> resyncs,
> >>> which takes full 7h here.
> >>
> >> There shouldn't be a resync.  Presumably nothing is writing to the
> >> array, and moments after the last write, the array will have been
> >> flagged as 'clean' and will not require a resync after a reboot.
>                                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> His host crashed != reboot so that is the reason for the resync.

If the host crashes will nothing is being written to the array, the
array would be marked clean, so a resync will still not be required.
You should only get a resync if the host crashing within 200msecs of
the last write completing.

NeilBrown
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