From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wiliam Colls Subject: ioctl message Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 15:15:51 -0400 Message-ID: <4FB69FE7.2010807@rogers.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids In our system log, we recently saw the following message: May 17 14:20:54 gabriel kernel: [423762.117502] mdadm: sending ioctl 1261 to a partition! repeated 10 times, all with the same time stamp. Has not re-occured since, and I don't recall seeing anything like it before. What is mdadm trying to tell me, and what do I need to do about it? Thanks for your time. -- I know that you believe that you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure that you realise that what you heard was not what I meant.