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From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux Software RAID Bitmap Question
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:04:15 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <17892.40143.389564.172608@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: message from Bill Davidsen on Tuesday February 27

On Tuesday February 27, davidsen@tmr.com wrote:
> Neil Brown wrote:
> > When md find a bad block (read failure) it either fixes it (by
> > successfully over-writing the correct date) or fails the drive.
> >
> > The count of the times that this has happened is available via
> >    /sys/block/mdX/md/errors
> >   
> What kernel provides this? I have system running everything from 2.6.15 
> to 2.6.20-get14, and there is no such file in any of them. There is a 
> per-device errors file one level down, but that presumably wouldn't be 
> in the superblock.

Sorry, I did get that wrong.  As you say it is a per-device field:
  /sys/block/mdX/md/dev-*/errors

which makes sense because it is individual devices that get errors,
not whole arrays.  And it *is* stored in the superblock for v1.  The
superblock has a per-device section which is potentially different on
each device,  The corrected-error count is stored there.

> 
> Do I have to go from 0.90 to v1 or later superblocks to get this, and if 
> so is that a safe thing to do?

It is not currently easy to convert a v0.90 array to use v1
superblocks.  I should put that on my todo list as it isn't
conceptually hard.

NeilBrown

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-27 21:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-25 14:05 Linux Software RAID Bitmap Question Justin Piszcz
2007-02-26  4:22 ` Neil Brown
2007-02-27 17:42   ` Bill Davidsen
2007-02-27 21:04     ` Neil Brown [this message]
2007-02-28  3:00       ` Bill Davidsen
2007-02-28 19:30   ` dean gaudet
2007-02-28 19:44     ` Justin Piszcz

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