From: jes.sorensen@gmail.com
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Cc: Linux-RAID <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [mdadm PATCH 5/5] Detail: handle non-existent arrays better.
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 14:34:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wrfj60itfdy8.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <149058581623.15679.14330532500949622569.stgit@noble> (NeilBrown's message of "Mon, 27 Mar 2017 14:36:56 +1100")
NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> writes:
> If you call "mdadm --detail" with a device file for an array which
> doesn't exist, such as by
> mknod /dev/md57 b 9 57
> mdadm --detail /dev/md57
>
> you get an unhelpful message about and inactive RAID0, and return
> status is '0'. This is confusing.
>
> So catch this possibility and print a more useful message, and
> return a non-zero status.
>
> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
> ---
> Detail.c | 8 ++++++++
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
Applied!
Thanks,
Jes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-28 18:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-27 3:36 [mdadm PATCH 0/5] Assorted mdadm patch NeilBrown
2017-03-27 3:36 ` [mdadm PATCH 1/5] udev-md-raid-assembly.rules: Skip non-ready devices NeilBrown
2017-03-27 3:36 ` [mdadm PATCH 2/5] Retry HOT_REMOVE_DISK a few times NeilBrown
2017-03-27 7:51 ` 王金浦
2017-03-27 3:36 ` [mdadm PATCH 4/5] Add 'force' flag to *hot_remove_disk() NeilBrown
2017-03-27 8:05 ` 王金浦
2017-03-28 18:33 ` jes.sorensen
2017-03-27 3:36 ` [mdadm PATCH 5/5] Detail: handle non-existent arrays better NeilBrown
2017-03-28 18:34 ` jes.sorensen [this message]
2017-03-27 3:36 ` [mdadm PATCH 3/5] Introduce sys_hot_remove_disk() NeilBrown
2017-03-28 18:33 ` jes.sorensen
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