Re: raid-on-raid during shutdown

[Jed Davis <jld%panix.com@localhost>]

der Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost> writes:

> As a workaround, you can just mount (even with -r) a filesystem on each
> top-level RAID before bringing the machine down - ugly, but effective.
> Ideally, I'd say, RAID-on_RAID should push cleanness all the way down
> on close, so nothing needs to be done at shutdown, but I don't see any
> good way to do that, especially in view of stackings like
> RAID-on-cgd-on-RAID.

If someone (e.g., me) does the GSoC project to improve RAIDframe's
parity wrangling, and does it ~right, then a RAID that hasn't been
written recently will be treated as clean.

(Proper device detachment at shutdown is still eminently desirable, of
course.)

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