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| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mdadm.8 | 22 |
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@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ Changes Prior to this release - Don't use 'lstat' to check for blockdevices, use stat. - Document --size=max option for --grow + - Document SparesMissing event and DeviceDisappeared/WrongLevel Changes Prior to 1.11.0 release - Fix embarassing bug which causes --add to always fail. @@ -1057,6 +1057,16 @@ The different events are: An md array which previously was configured appears to no longer be configured. +If +.I mdadm +was told to monitor an array which is RAID0 or Linear, then it will +report +.B DeviceDisappeared +with the extra information +.BR Wrong-Level . +This is because RAID0 and Linear do not support the device-failed, +hot-spare and resync operations which are monitored. + .TP .B RebuildStarted An md array started reconstruction. @@ -1109,6 +1119,18 @@ A spare drive has been moved from one array in a to another to allow a failed drive to be replaced. .TP +.B SparesMissing +If +.I mdadm +has been told, via the config file, that an array should have a certain +number of spare devices, and +.I mdadm +detects that it has fewer that this number when it first sees the +array, it will report a +.B SparesMissing +message. + +.TP .B TestMessage An array was found at startup, and the .B --test |