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RAID question



Hello.

I have several systems (CentOS 3 and CentOS 4) with software raid and I've observed a difference in the raid state:

In CentOS 3 systems we find that mdadm --detail /dev/md* show:
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      Version : 00.90.00
Creation Time : Fri Apr 16 14:59:43 2004
   Raid Level : raid1
   Array Size : 20289984 (19.35 GiB 20.78 GB)
  Device Size : 20289984 (19.35 GiB 20.78 GB)
 Raid Devices : 2
Total Devices : 2
Preferred Minor : 5
  Persistence : Superblock is persistent

Update Time : Thu Apr 20 15:52:50 2006
State : dirty, no-errors <--------------------------------------------------- RAID STATE
Active Devices : 2
Working Devices : 2
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0



Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 33 7 0 active sync /dev/hde7 1 34 7 1 active sync /dev/hdg7 UUID : 232294aa:45bd9dea:c62face1:2fbf7a60 Events : 0.38 ..........................................

while in CentOS 3 systems we find:
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      Version : 00.90.01
Creation Time : Wed Feb 15 10:13:41 2006
   Raid Level : raid1
   Array Size : 76051584 (72.53 GiB 77.88 GB)
  Device Size : 76051584 (72.53 GiB 77.88 GB)
 Raid Devices : 2
Total Devices : 2
Preferred Minor : 1
  Persistence : Superblock is persistent

Update Time : Sun Apr 23 12:48:42 2006
State : clean <------------------------------------------------------- RAID STATE
Active Devices : 2
Working Devices : 2
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0



Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 1 0 active sync /dev/sda1 1 8 17 1 active sync /dev/sdb1 UUID : 35c88d0d:0a9b5ba5:78a32da7:5d5cb1ec Events : 0.251478

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Which is the difference between dirty and clean state? Both systems work fine.
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