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diff --git a/Documentation/md.txt b/Documentation/md.txt index a8b430627473..1da9d1b1793f 100644 --- a/Documentation/md.txt +++ b/Documentation/md.txt @@ -236,6 +236,11 @@ All md devices contain: writing the word for the desired state, however some states cannot be explicitly set, and some transitions are not allowed. + Select/poll works on this file. All changes except between + active_idle and active (which can be frequent and are not + very interesting) are notified. active->active_idle is + reported if the metadata is externally managed. + clear No devices, no size, no level Writing is equivalent to STOP_ARRAY ioctl @@ -292,6 +297,10 @@ Each directory contains: writemostly - device will only be subject to read requests if there are no other options. This applies only to raid1 arrays. + blocked - device has failed, metadata is "external", + and the failure hasn't been acknowledged yet. + Writes that would write to this device if + it were not faulty are blocked. spare - device is working, but not a full member. This includes spares that are in the process of being recovered to @@ -301,6 +310,12 @@ Each directory contains: Writing "remove" removes the device from the array. Writing "writemostly" sets the writemostly flag. Writing "-writemostly" clears the writemostly flag. + Writing "blocked" sets the "blocked" flag. + Writing "-blocked" clear the "blocked" flag and allows writes + to complete. + + This file responds to select/poll. Any change to 'faulty' + or 'blocked' causes an event. errors An approximate count of read errors that have been detected on @@ -332,7 +347,7 @@ Each directory contains: for storage of data. This will normally be the same as the component_size. This can be written while assembling an array. If a value less than the current component_size is - written, component_size will be reduced to this value. + written, it will be rejected. An active md device will also contain and entry for each active device @@ -381,6 +396,19 @@ also have 'check' and 'repair' will start the appropriate process providing the current state is 'idle'. + This file responds to select/poll. Any important change in the value + triggers a poll event. Sometimes the value will briefly be + "recover" if a recovery seems to be needed, but cannot be + achieved. In that case, the transition to "recover" isn't + notified, but the transition away is. + + degraded + This contains a count of the number of devices by which the + arrays is degraded. So an optimal array with show '0'. A + single failed/missing drive will show '1', etc. + This file responds to select/poll, any increase or decrease + in the count of missing devices will trigger an event. + mismatch_count When performing 'check' and 'repair', and possibly when performing 'resync', md will count the number of errors that are |