Bug#511417: Raid1 resync does not run in the background

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

reassign 511417 mdadm
thanks

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 06:29:59PM +0100, Joachim Zobel wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64
> Version: 2.6.26-12
> Severity: medium
> 
> I have a desktop with 1Tb raid1 disk. After a crash it took about 2
> hours to boot, since the raid1 resync slowed the box down. 
> 
> Setting in /etc/sysctl.conf
> 
> dev.raid.speed_limit_max = 30000
> 
> helped in my case. I do however think that a raid1 resync should behave
> reasonably out of the box.

We're not going to change the defaults on the kernel side. 

I'm reassigning this to mdadm, it seems if this were a useful addition
to a README.Debian or the like.

Cheers,
        Moritz