From: "Theepan" <tornado@linuxfromscratch.org>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Which (physical) disk is broken?
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 12:31:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <004e01c4e9ac$1fd7a750$0200a8c0@tornado> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 874qic2brg.fsf@pumba.bayour.com
>
> I was more thinking on the 'magic'. When I created the array, I included
> this broken disk. I later removed it, but there should still (?) be a
> record of it in the super block (or wherever mdadm checks).
>
> It knows how many disks there SHOULD be, and it knows how many is working.
>
How about something primitive as checking the syslog messages (sent to
facility kern)? You'll get messages from 'md' when you manipulate arrays, at
least this is true for kernel 2.4. You'll see something like this:
Dec 24 12:25:02 storm kernel: md: trying to remove hdk1 from md4 ...
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Theepan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-24 11:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-21 11:08 Which (physical) disk is broken? Turbo Fredriksson
2004-12-22 16:39 ` Guy
2004-12-22 20:15 ` Michael
2004-12-22 23:10 ` Neil Brown
2004-12-23 0:52 ` Guy
2004-12-22 22:33 ` Turbo Fredriksson
2004-12-22 23:00 ` Neil Brown
2004-12-24 11:09 ` Turbo Fredriksson
2004-12-24 11:31 ` Theepan [this message]
2004-12-24 12:32 ` Turbo Fredriksson
2004-12-24 17:14 ` Guy
2004-12-27 12:35 ` Turbo Fredriksson
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