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From: maurice <mhilarius@gmail.com>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: CoolCold <coolthecold@gmail.com>,
	hochglanz@gmail.com, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Device utilization with RAID-1
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:32:37 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E4EAC45.9040705@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110819103135.5b6a3998@notabene.brown>

On 8/18/2011 6:31 PM, NeilBrown wrote:
> ..
> In mdstat you have 'active' or 'inactive'.  You cannot access an array at all
> until it is active.  If you are assembling an array bit by bit with "mdadm
> -I", it will be inactive until all the devices appear.  Then it will be
> active.
>
> In mdadm "State :" you have 'active' or 'clean'. as described above.  It used
> to be 'dirty' or 'clean' but people were confused by having 'dirty' arrays in
> normal operation.  So I changed it to 'active' and now it confuses a
> different set of people.  You just can't win can you :-)
>
> NeilBrown

mdstat:
"Enabled" or "Disabled" perhaps?

That matches what most commercial hardware RAID interfaces use.

-- 
Cheers,
Maurice Hilarius
eMail: /mhilarius@gmail.com/

  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-19 18:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-18  0:26 Fwd: Re: Device utilization with RAID-1 Harald Nikolisin
2011-08-18  1:42 ` NeilBrown
2011-08-18  6:44   ` Stefan /*St0fF*/ Hübner
2011-08-18 13:44   ` CoolCold
2011-08-19  0:31     ` NeilBrown
2011-08-19 18:32       ` maurice [this message]
2011-08-20  3:13         ` John Robinson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-08-16  0:39 Harald Nikolisin
2011-08-16  1:30 ` Roberto Spadim
     [not found] ` <CABYL=TqYhDSFTx9Bq6_AWZaYd+qtbd=tJyTHJUjXwYHH_qkQnQ@mail.gmail.com>
2011-08-16 17:25   ` Harald Nikolisin

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