From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Clements Subject: Re: What does this mean? Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 01:37:38 -0500 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3E659B32.A8268302@SteelEye.com> References: <05ac01c2e2d3$72280f40$1400020a@mike> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: To: Michael Paul Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Michael Paul wrote: > > Hi there... > > I get the following message when cat'ing /proc/mdstat: > > md0 : active linear [dev 08:30] [8] [dev 08:20] [7] ^^^^^ ^^^^^ Well, you're in luck, because these numbers are the major and minors for sdc and sdd: $ ls -l /dev/sdd brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 48 May 5 1998 /dev/sdd $ ls -l /dev/sdc brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 32 May 5 1998 /dev/sdc (hex 20 and 30 => decimal 32 and 48) I'm not sure why md sometimes puts the major:minor instead of the device name. Perhaps has something to do with the driver for your sdc and sdd? I'm guessing here... -- Paul hdj[6] hdi[5] hdh[4] > hdg[3] hde[2] hdc[1] hdb[0] > 182485184 blocks 4k rounding > > In my raidtab file, sdc = 7 and sdd = 8. Is there some type of error here? > The linear seems to be working properly, but since I'm such a newbie, I > can't tell for sure. I wish there was a better way to check on the raid > status. > > Thanks, > Michael > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html