From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Tokarev Subject: Re: Bug#658701: mdadm: should send email if mismatches are reported by a check Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 18:39:08 +0400 Message-ID: <4FC0EB0C.1080800@msgid.tls.msk.ru> References: <20120205123450.21371.88843.reportbug@xev> <4F2E90AD.3020405@msgid.tls.msk.ru> <4F872CED.7050809@msgid.tls.msk.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4F872CED.7050809@msgid.tls.msk.ru> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Michael Tokarev , 658701@bugs.debian.org Cc: Neil Brown , linux-raid List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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