Re: Bug#658701: mdadm: should send email if mismatches are reported by a check

[Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>]

Neil, can you comment on the change to Monitor offered
in the mentioned bugreport please?

On 12.04.2012 23:28, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> Neil, re http://bugs.debian.org/658701 , how do you think,
> is it okay if mdadm --monitor will send email in case check
> found mismatches, the same way it sends email about other
> more critical errors?
> 
> I think Russell has a good point here, but there's one more
> source of mismatches we have in kernel - some "sporadic"
> mismatches in raid1 and raid10, especially when these are
> used as swap space...
> 
> In Debian we've several bugreports already requesting more
> attention to mismatch_cnt, see:
> 
>  http://bugs.debian.org/658701 (this one)
>  http://bugs.debian.org/599821
>  http://bugs.debian.org/588516
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> /mjt