From: maurice <mhilarius@gmail.com>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: CoolCold <coolthecold@gmail.com>,
hochglanz@gmail.com, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Device utilization with RAID-1
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:32:37 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E4EAC45.9040705@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110819103135.5b6a3998@notabene.brown>
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@gmail.com/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-19 18:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-18 0:26 Fwd: Re: Device utilization with RAID-1 Harald Nikolisin
2011-08-18 1:42 ` NeilBrown
2011-08-18 6:44 ` Stefan /*St0fF*/ Hübner
2011-08-18 13:44 ` CoolCold
2011-08-19 0:31 ` NeilBrown
2011-08-19 18:32 ` maurice [this message]
2011-08-20 3:13 ` John Robinson
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2011-08-16 0:39 Harald Nikolisin
2011-08-16 1:30 ` Roberto Spadim
[not found] ` <CABYL=TqYhDSFTx9Bq6_AWZaYd+qtbd=tJyTHJUjXwYHH_qkQnQ@mail.gmail.com>
2011-08-16 17:25 ` Harald Nikolisin
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