From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Greaves Subject: Re: when is a disk "non-fresh"? Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:36:46 +0000 Message-ID: <47AED3BE.50606@dgreaves.com> References: <200802030354.33435.Dexter.Filmore@gmx.de> <200802072316.20907.Dexter.Filmore@gmx.de> <18347.37564.207728.571946@notabene.brown> <200802081032.26044.Dexter.Filmore@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200802081032.26044.Dexter.Filmore@gmx.de> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Dexter Filmore Cc: Neil Brown , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Dexter Filmore wrote: > On Friday 08 February 2008 00:22:36 Neil Brown wrote: >> On Thursday February 7, Dexter.Filmore@gmx.de wrote: >>> On Tuesday 05 February 2008 03:02:00 Neil Brown wrote: >>>> On Monday February 4, Dexter.Filmore@gmx.de wrote: >>>>> Seems the other topic wasn't quite clear... >>>> not necessarily. sometimes it helps to repeat your question. there >>>> is a lot of noise on the internet and somethings important things get >>>> missed... :-) >>>> >>>>> Occasionally a disk is kicked for being "non-fresh" - what does this >>>>> mean and what causes it? >>>> The 'event' count is too small. >>>> Every event that happens on an array causes the event count to be >>>> incremented. >>> An 'event' here is any atomic action? Like "write byte there" or "calc >>> XOR"? >> An 'event' is >> - switch from clean to dirty >> - switch from dirty to clean >> - a device fails >> - a spare finishes recovery >> things like that. > > Is there a glossary that explains "dirty" and such in detail? Not yet. http://linux-raid.osdl.org/index.php?title=Glossary David