From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: bardov@gmail.com
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: programmatic API?
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:46:12 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100225214612.1e5f8de5@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <27127259.41267088084737.JavaMail.root@wombat>
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:54:44 -0500
bardov@gmail.com wrote:
> I'd like to create/manage raid arrays from a program.
> Is there an API, or a library I can link with?
> Or is my only option using system("mdadm ..."); ?
>
>
You can do almost anything by reading/writing files
in /sys/class/block/mdX/md/
Some details are in Documentation/md.txt
For the few things that you cannot do through sysfs, you would use an IOCTL.
But I suspect that fork/exec("/sbin/mdadm" ....)
would be your best bet, though it depends on exactly what you want to do.
There is no library, but there a plenty if bits of code in the mdadm source
that you might want to borrow if your program will be GPL.
NeilBrown
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2010-02-25 8:54 programmatic API? bardov
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