From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: jes.sorensen@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [mdadm PATCH 5/5] Detail: handle non-existent arrays better.
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 14:34:07 -0400
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        (NeilBrown's message of "Mon, 27 Mar 2017 14:36:56 +1100")
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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