On Nov 28, 2013, at 8:45 PM, Can Jeuleers <can.jeuleers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/28/2013 06:11 PM, Ivan Lezhnjov IV wrote: >> I would appreciate it if someone pointed out if there is a documentation that can be used to interpret all the codes that appear in /proc/mdstat output. For example, I know that (F) means that an array member's status is Failed, but what about (S)? Are there any other status codes like that? What are their meanings? > > Use the code Luke :-) > > See drivers/md/md.c:md_seq_show(). This suggests: > > (W) means write-mostly > (F) means faulty > (S) means spare > > HH, Jan This is great. Thank you. I'm not fluent at C but it sheds at least some light on this. Also, it looks like rdev is a "raid device" as opposed to bdev being "block device" but it's interesting how the flow of assembling array looks like. Any chance you or anyone else know where i could read a description without having to decipher the md.c? Ivan-- 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