Dexter Filmore wrote: > On Friday 08 February 2008 00:22:36 Neil Brown wrote: >> On Thursday February 7, Dexter.Filmore@xxxxxx wrote: >>> On Tuesday 05 February 2008 03:02:00 Neil Brown wrote: >>>> On Monday February 4, Dexter.Filmore@xxxxxx wrote: >>>>> Seems the other topic wasn't quite clear... >>>> not necessarily. sometimes it helps to repeat your question. there >>>> is a lot of noise on the internet and somethings important things get >>>> missed... :-) >>>> >>>>> Occasionally a disk is kicked for being "non-fresh" - what does this >>>>> mean and what causes it? >>>> The 'event' count is too small. >>>> Every event that happens on an array causes the event count to be >>>> incremented. >>> An 'event' here is any atomic action? Like "write byte there" or "calc >>> XOR"? >> An 'event' is >> - switch from clean to dirty >> - switch from dirty to clean >> - a device fails >> - a spare finishes recovery >> things like that. > > Is there a glossary that explains "dirty" and such in detail? Not yet. http://linux-raid.osdl.org/index.php?title=Glossary David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
