From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: maurice Subject: Re: Device utilization with RAID-1 Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:32:37 -0600 Message-ID: <4E4EAC45.9040705@gmail.com> References: <4E4C5C29.6040303@googlemail.com> <20110818114205.61aaa454@notabene.brown> <20110819103135.5b6a3998@notabene.brown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20110819103135.5b6a3998@notabene.brown> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: NeilBrown Cc: CoolCold , hochglanz@gmail.com, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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/