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dmesg shows “md: serializing resync, md4 has overlapping physical units with md5” (where md4 and md5 are two of your software RAID devices). What does this mean?

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dmesg shows “md: serializing resync, md4 has overlapping physical units with md5” (where md4 and md5 are two of your software RAID devices). What does this mean?

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In that message “physical units” refers to disks, and not to blocks on the disks. Since there is more than one RAID array that needs resyncing on one of the disks in use for your RAID arrays, the RAID code is going to sync md4 first, and md5 second, to avoid excessive seeks (also called thrashing), which would drastically slow the resync process.

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