From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Francois Billard <francois.billard@alyseo.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Managing mdam
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 18:37:20 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130911183720.22cba566@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <026e01ceaec2$2ced7110$86c85330$@alyseo.com>
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On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 09:40:23 +0200 "Francois Billard"
<francois.billard@alyseo.com> wrote:
> We want to embed raid management in our application. But we want a better
> solution if it exists rather than parsing the output of mdadm which is error
> prone.
> Is there a solution or should i write kilometer of regexp ? :)
The --export option of --detail and --examine should provide a lot of the
important data in usable format. If there is something missing that you
need I will certainly consider adding it.
Depending on what exactly you want, you might be able to fish it out of
/sys/block/mdXX/md/*
NeilBrown
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org
> [mailto:linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org] De la part de NeilBrown
> Envoyé : mercredi 11 septembre 2013 01:49
> À : Francois Billard
> Cc : linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
> Objet : Re: Managing mdam
>
> On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 10:03:23 +0200 Francois Billard
> <francois.billard@alyseo.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is it possible to manage mdadm from an external point of view ? with a
> > library with bindings in some language (Python) for example ?
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > Regards,
> > Francois
>
> Only by running mdadm in a separate process and passing appropriate
> arguments.
>
> Is there something particular that you wanted to do?
>
> NeilBrown
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-10 5:00 Subject: [PATCH] md: avoid deadlock when raid5 array has unack badblocks during md_stop_writes y b
2013-09-10 5:33 ` NeilBrown
2013-09-10 7:19 ` y b
2013-09-10 8:03 ` Managing mdam Francois Billard
2013-09-10 23:48 ` NeilBrown
2013-09-11 7:40 ` Francois Billard
2013-09-11 8:37 ` NeilBrown [this message]
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