Just wanted to clarify since I didn't mention that below, I used "dmraid -n" to show me the output of the metadata. -The output of "dmraid -n" shows isw_dev[0].vol.map[0].failed_disk_num: 255. I expected this to be the number of the disk that I have removed. Regards, Sandra -----Original Message----- From: ataraid-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ataraid-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Heinz Mauelshagen Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 9:47 AM To: ATARAID (eg, Promise Fasttrak, Highpoint 370) related discussions Subject: RE: experimenting with dmraid - disk status On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 09:11 -0400, Sandra Escandor wrote: > Hello Heinz, > > Thanks for your reply. I took a bit of a break from this experiment, but > now I'm back. The output of "dm_dso_reg_tool -m" shows that the devices > have indeed been registered. But the metadata is not changed when one of > the disks becomes "disabled" (according to dmsetup status). The metadata > on the disks should reflect this with some sort of change in the > metadata, right? Or am I wrong? dmsetup (a developer level test tool) only shows _incore_ state, not disk state of the isw metadata. Use dmraid to show on disk metadata state. Regards, Heinz > > Regards, > Sandra > > -----Original Message----- > From: ataraid-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:ataraid-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Heinz Mauelshagen > Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 11:35 AM > To: ATARAID (eg, Promise Fasttrak, Highpoint 370) related discussions > Subject: RE: experimenting with dmraid - disk status > > > Hi Sandra, > > your case described looks like the dmraid dmeventd isw plugin is not > installed and if it is, the devies aren't being registered for event > monitoring properly. Check with "dm_dso_reg_tool -m" if the devices got > registered properly which I assume is not the case. > > Regards, > Heinz > > On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 09:00 -0400, Sandra Escandor wrote: > > I'm not sure if my question was sent properly last time, so I'm > > resending :) Is it true that if in the middle of a RAID i/o, one of > the > > disks fail, dmevent doesn't actually change the metadata at all? My > > experiment procedure is listed below. Perhaps I did something wrong? > > > > Thanks for clarifying, > > Sandra > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Sandra Escandor > > Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 1:46 PM > > To: 'ATARAID (eg, Promise Fasttrak,Highpoint 370) related discussions' > > Subject: RE: experimenting with dmraid - disk status > > > > Ok, I've set it up so that I transfer a large file onto the RAID, and > > then during the transfer, I pull out a member disk to simulate a disk > > failure. I would like to confirm if I should be seeing what I'm > seeing: > > > > -The output of "dmraid -n" shows disk[0].status: 0x53a for all of the > > disks, even the one pulled out. I expected dmeventd to change one of > > them, since I'm doing I/O as you had mentioned. Is what I was > expecting > > incorrect? > > -The output of "dmraid -n" shows > isw_dev[0].vol.map[0].failed_disk_num: > > 255. I expected this to be the number of the disk that I have removed. > > Is what I am expecting for this field incorrect? > > > > I do see that dmsetup and dm_dso_reg_tool give the proper output (as > > mentioned in the document "How to Guide: DMRAID Eventing - What To > > Expect"), so that's good. So, does this mean that dmeventd doesn't > > modify the metadata at all as what I had expected above? > > > > Thanks, > > Sandra > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: ataraid-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > > [mailto:ataraid-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Heinz > Mauelshagen > > Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 8:46 AM > > To: ATARAID (eg, Promise Fasttrak, Highpoint 370) related discussions > > Subject: RE: experimenting with dmraid - disk status > > > > On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 07:58 -0400, Sandra Escandor wrote: > > > So, if I understood what you have said correctly, then the following > > > would be true: > > > > > > - When there is no I/O being performed on the RAID, and then one of > > the > > > member disks becomes disconnected for some reason, then a dmeventd > > event > > > would not be generated. > > > > Correct. > > > > > - After a while, I/O does get performed on the RAID (with a member > > disk > > > disconnected), then that will be the time that a dmeventd event gets > > > generated. > > > > Correct. > > > > Any generated events are being based on io, not on _any_ other events > > such as unplugging a drive. > > > > Heinz > > > > > > > > Is that right? > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: ataraid-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > > > [mailto:ataraid-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Heinz > > Mauelshagen > > > Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 4:53 PM > > > To: ATARAID (eg, Promise Fasttrak, Highpoint 370) related > discussions > > > Subject: RE: experimenting with dmraid - disk status > > > > > > On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 15:19 -0400, Sandra Escandor wrote: > > > > After I installed the dmeventd package, I notice the following: > > > > (general setup: ICH10R controller, raid0+1, 4 member disks) > > > > - When I pull out a drive, then run dm_dso_reg_tool -m, the > section > > > > "Error Events Recorded by Kernel" for the superset and two subsets > > are > > > > still 0. Is this expected? > > > > > > Unless you performed io on the set. > > > > > > > - (Drive still physically disconnected) when I run dmraid -n, the > > > > metadata shows that the status of the disk that I pulled out still > > has > > > > the same status as the other disks which are plugged in (i.e > > > > disk[0].status: 0x53a is shown for all of the disks, even the one > > that > > > > I pulled out). > > > > > > Same as above. > > > > > > Heinz > > > > > > > > > > > The steps that I took to set up the device mapper raid event > > > monitoring > > > > are basically the same as the one found in: "How to Setup Device > > > Mapper > > > > Raid event Monitoring_0.74.pdf" > > > > (http://sources.redhat.com/lvm2/wiki/DMRAID_Eventing) > > > > EXCEPT: > > > > * I obtained the dmeventd package from the Ubuntu repository > > > (Maverick) > > > > * I didn't install the patch (since I'm using kernel 2.6.35) > > > > * I changed the makefile of libdmraid-events so that it would link > > > with > > > > the pthread library (i.e added -lpthread to the makefile). > > > > > > > > Is there another package that I need to install, or have I not set > > > this > > > > up properly? > > > > > > > > Thanks for the clarifications, > > > > Sandra > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Heinz Mauelshagen [mailto:heinzm@xxxxxxxxxx] > > > > Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 10:14 AM > > > > To: Sandra Escandor > > > > Subject: RE: experimenting with dmraid - disk status > > > > > > > > On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 08:00 -0400, Sandra Escandor wrote: > > > > > I forgot to mention my metadata type. Yes, I'm using Intel > > software > > > > raid > > > > > (so it's in isw format). Where would I be able to get this > plugin? > > > > > > > > You should get them with any distros dmraid-events package. > > > > > > > > Heinz > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > Sandra > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > From: ataraid-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > > > > > [mailto:ataraid-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Heinz > > > > Mauelshagen > > > > > Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 3:58 AM > > > > > To: ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > > > > Subject: Re: experimenting with dmraid - disk status > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 09:30 -0400, Sandra Escandor wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I was doing a bit of experimenting with dmraid. What I have > done > > > is > > > > to > > > > > > create a raid0+1 array, and then physically pull one of the > > disks > > > > out. > > > > > > I then use the command "dmraid -n" to look at the metadata on > > the > > > > > > member disks. I notice that the member disk listed by the > output > > > > that > > > > > > has the specific serial number of the disk that I pulled, > whose > > > > status > > > > > > I expect to be different from the other disks listed, still > has > > > the > > > > > > same status as the other still physically plugged in. (i.e > > > > > > disk[0].status: 0x53a is shown for all of the disks, even the > > one > > > > that > > > > > > I pulled out). Is this normal? > > > > > > > > > > Yes, unless it's isw format, where a plugin exists to update the > > > > > metadata. > > > > > > > > > > Heinz > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The following is the output of "dmraid -V": > > > > > > > > > > > > dmraid version: 1.0.0.rc16 (2009.09.16) shared > > > > > > > > > > > > dmraid library version: 1.0.0.rc16 (2009.09.16) > > > > > > > > > > > > device-mapper version: 4.13.0 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks for clarifying, > > > > > > > > > > > > Sandra > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > Ataraid-list mailing list > > > > > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > > > > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > Ataraid-list mailing list > > > > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > > > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Ataraid-list mailing list > > > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Ataraid-list mailing list > > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Ataraid-list mailing list > > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ataraid-list mailing list > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ataraid-list mailing list > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list > > > _______________________________________________ > Ataraid-list mailing list > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list > > _______________________________________________ > Ataraid-list mailing list > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list _______________________________________________ Ataraid-list mailing list Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list _______________________________________________ Ataraid-list mailing list Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list
