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authorNeil Brown <neilb@suse.de>2005-06-14 06:31:34 +0000
committerNeil Brown <neilb@suse.de>2005-06-14 06:31:34 +0000
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Document SparesMissing and DeviceDisappeared/WrongLevel
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
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@@ -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