Document SparesMissing and DeviceDisappeared/WrongLevel

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
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Neil Brown 2005-06-14 06:31:34 +00:00
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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.

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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.
@ -1108,6 +1118,18 @@ A spare drive has been moved from one array in a
.B spare-group
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