From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Fabien Bourigault <dradge@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Check / Automatic repair
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 20:15:38 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120521201538.1fbac51b@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFYuN7qTy5Apj265N6PiyvbU5QmS7=ry+ofi=vHjzDfsf7uh5g@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 21 May 2012 12:09:47 +0200 Fabien Bourigault <dradge@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was reading the kernel md.txt documentation and found that couple of
> sentences about sync_action :
>
> 496 check - A full check of redundancy was requested and is
> 497 happening. This reads all block and checks
> 498 them. A repair may also happen for some raid
> 499 levels.
>
>
> What levels/configurations are affected by the "A repair may also
> happen for some raid levels." sentence ?
Someone really should find time to fix up that file....
I don't remember the details of what it meant at the time, but with current
code 'check' means a check is happening for all raid levels, and 'repair'
means a repair is happening.
NeilBrown
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-21 10:09 Check / Automatic repair Fabien Bourigault
2012-05-21 10:15 ` NeilBrown [this message]
2012-05-21 11:25 ` Fabien Bourigault
2012-05-21 11:36 ` NeilBrown
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