From 4dbcdc751cb25ffca3a8374cbc5ab6de961cc545 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: NeilBrown Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 00:20:52 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] md: count corrected read errors per drive Store this total in superblock (As appropriate), and make it available to userspace via sysfs. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown Acked-by: Greg KH Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/md.txt | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/md.txt b/Documentation/md.txt index fd43fd2cad2f..a3eadf8e1701 100644 --- a/Documentation/md.txt +++ b/Documentation/md.txt @@ -222,6 +222,17 @@ Each directory contains: of being recoverred to This list make grow in future. + errors + An approximate count of read errors that have been detected on + this device but have not caused the device to be evicted from + the array (either because they were corrected or because they + happened while the array was read-only). When using version-1 + metadata, this value persists across restarts of the array. + + This value can be written while assembling an array thus + providing an ongoing count for arrays with metadata managed by + userspace. + An active md device will also contain and entry for each active device in the array. These are named -- cgit v1.2.3-58-ga151