From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nix Subject: Re: FailSpare event? Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 23:34:26 +0000 Message-ID: <87odp2pkl9.fsf@hades.wkstn.nix> References: <17830.47341.560158.521091@notabene.brown> <200701121534.17618.earny@net4u.de> <873b6ere4s.fsf@hades.wkstn.nix> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: In-Reply-To: <873b6ere4s.fsf@hades.wkstn.nix> (nix@esperi.org.uk's message of "13 Jan 2007 18:25:19 -0000") Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: earny@net4u.de Cc: Neil Brown , Mike , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 13 Jan 2007, nix@esperi.org.uk spake thusly: > On 12 Jan 2007, Ernst Herzberg told this: >> Then every about 60 sec 4 times >> >> event=SpareActive >> mddev=/dev/md3 > > I see exactly this on both my RAID-5 arrays, neither of which have any > spare device --- nor have any active devices transitioned to spare > (which is what that event is actually supposed to mean). Hm, the manual says that it means that a spare has transitioned to active (which seems more likely). Perhaps the comment at line 82 of Monitor.c is wrong, or I just don't understand what a `reverse transition' is supposed to be. -- `He accused the FSF of being "something of a hypocrit", which shows that he neither understands hypocrisy nor can spell.' --- jimmybgood