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From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Managing mdam
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 18:37:20 +1000
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On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 09:40:23 +0200 "Francois Billard"
<francois.billard@alyseo.com> wrote:

> We want to embed raid management in our application. But we want a better
> solution if it exists rather than parsing the output of mdadm which is er=
ror
> prone.
> Is there a solution or should i write kilometer of regexp ? :)

The --export option of --detail and --examine should provide a lot of the
important data in usable format.  If there is something missing that you
need I will certainly consider adding it.

Depending on what exactly you want, you might be able to fish it out of=20
  /sys/block/mdXX/md/*

NeilBrown

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> -----Message d'origine-----
> De=C2=A0: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org
> [mailto:linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org] De la part de NeilBrown
> Envoy=C3=A9=C2=A0: mercredi 11 septembre 2013 01:49
> =C3=80=C2=A0: Francois Billard
> Cc=C2=A0: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
> Objet=C2=A0: Re: Managing mdam
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> On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 10:03:23 +0200 Francois Billard
> <francois.billard@alyseo.com> wrote:
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> > Hi,
> >=20
> > Is it possible to manage mdadm from an external point of view ? with a=
=20
> > library with bindings in some language (Python) for example ?
> > Thanks in advance
> >=20
> > Regards,
> > Francois
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> Only by running mdadm in a separate process and passing appropriate
> arguments.
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> Is there something particular that you wanted to do?
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> NeilBrown


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