experimenting with dmraid - disk status
Heinz Mauelshagen
heinzm at redhat.com
Fri Apr 29 07:57:32 UTC 2011
On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 09:30 -0400, Sandra Escandor wrote:
> Hello,
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> I was doing a bit of experimenting with dmraid. What I have done is to
> create a raid0+1 array, and then physically pull one of the disks out.
> I then use the command “dmraid –n” to look at the metadata on the
> member disks. I notice that the member disk listed by the output that
> has the specific serial number of the disk that I pulled, whose status
> I expect to be different from the other disks listed, still has the
> same status as the other still physically plugged in. (i.e
> disk[0].status: 0x53a is shown for all of the disks, even the one that
> I pulled out). Is this normal?
Yes, unless it's isw format, where a plugin exists to update the
metadata.
Heinz
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> The following is the output of “dmraid –V”:
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> dmraid version: 1.0.0.rc16 (2009.09.16) shared
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> dmraid library version: 1.0.0.rc16 (2009.09.16)
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> device-mapper version: 4.13.0
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> Thanks for clarifying,
>
> Sandra
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>
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