> -----Original Message----- > From: Neil Brown [mailto:neilb@xxxxxxx] > Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2009 4:47 PM > To: lrhorer@xxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Events? > > On Saturday May 30, lrhorer@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > What does the "Events" field reported by -Dt signify, and why does the > > number sometimes decrease? I've seen the number change, but I don't see > > anything in any of the system logs corresponding to something that would > > seem to relate. > > Changes just as device failure and adding or removing a device. > Also transitions from 'active' to 'clean' and back. OK, but shouldn't these transitions at least be logged somewhere? > Sometimes the dirty->transition causes the event counter to retreat if > md is use the new 'clean' state is indistinguishable from the old > 'clean' state. This allows us not to always be waking up spare drives > just to tell them about clean->active->clean transitions. That makes sense, but I think the admin should be able to inspect the details of the transactions. -- 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
