On 8/18/2011 6:31 PM, NeilBrown wrote:
.. In mdstat you have 'active' or 'inactive'. You cannot access an array at all until it is active. If you are assembling an array bit by bit with "mdadm -I", it will be inactive until all the devices appear. Then it will be active. In mdadm "State :" you have 'active' or 'clean'. as described above. It used to be 'dirty' or 'clean' but people were confused by having 'dirty' arrays in normal operation. So I changed it to 'active' and now it confuses a different set of people. You just can't win can you :-) NeilBrown
mdstat: "Enabled" or "Disabled" perhaps? That matches what most commercial hardware RAID interfaces use. -- Cheers, Maurice Hilarius eMail: /mhilarius@xxxxxxxxx/ -- 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
