Hi Shailendra,
I ran the program and it reports:
Level 6, disks=11 spare_disks=1 raid_disks=10
which looks good. I don't understand why you got:
Level 5, disks=7 spare_disks=3 raid_disks=5
Why would it have 3 spare_disks?
Thanks,
Steve
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On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Shailendra Tripathi wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> Your guess appears to be correct. md_ioctl returns nr which
> is total number of disk in the array including the spare disks. However,
> XFS function md_get_vol_stripe does not take spare disk into account. It
> needs to subtract spare_disks as well.
> However, md.spare_disks returned by the call returns spare + parity
> (both). So, one way could be substract spare_disks directly. Otherwise,
> the xfs should rely on md.raid_disks. This does not include spare_disks
> and nr.disks should be changed for that.
>
> When I run my program md_info on raid5 array with 5 devices and 2
> spares, I get
> [root@ga09 root]# ./a.out /dev/md11
> Level 5, disks=7 spare_disks=3 raid_disks=5
>
> Steve can you please compile the pasted program and run on your system
> with md prepared. It takes /dev/md<no> as input.
> In your case, you should get above line as:
> Level 6, disks=11 spare disks=3 raid_disks=10
>
> nr=working=active=failed=spare=0;
> ITERATE_RDEV(mddev,rdev,tmp) {
> nr++;
> if (rdev->faulty)
> failed++;
> else {
> working++;
> if (rdev->in_sync)
> active++;
> else
> spare++;
> }
> }
>
> info.level = mddev->level;
> info.size = mddev->size;
> info.nr_disks = nr;
> ....
> info.active_disks = active;
> info.working_disks = working;
> info.failed_disks = failed;
> info.spare_disks = spare;
>
> -shailendra
> The program is pasted below:
> md_info.c. Takes /dev/md<no> as name. For example, /dev/md11.
>
> #include<stdio.h>
> #include<fcntl.h>
> #include<sys/ioctl.h>
> #ifndef MD_MAJOR
> #define MD_MAJOR 9
> #endif
>
> #define GET_ARRAY_INFO _IOR (MD_MAJOR, 0x11, struct md_array_info)
>
>
> struct md_array_info {
> __uint32_t major_version;
> __uint32_t minor_version;
> __uint32_t patch_version;
> __uint32_t ctime;
> __uint32_t level;
> __uint32_t size;
> __uint32_t nr_disks;
> __uint32_t raid_disks;
> __uint32_t md_minor;
> __uint32_t not_persistent;
> /*
> * Generic state information
> */
> __uint32_t utime; /* 0 Superblock update time */
> __uint32_t state; /* 1 State bits (clean, ...) */
> __uint32_t active_disks; /* 2 Number of currently active disks */
> __uint32_t working_disks; /* 3 Number of working disks */
> __uint32_t failed_disks; /* 4 Number of failed disks */
> __uint32_t spare_disks; /* 5 Number of spare disks */
> /*
> * Personality information
> */
> __uint32_t layout; /* 0 the array's physical layout */
> __uint32_t chunk_size; /* 1 chunk size in bytes */
>
> };
>
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
> struct md_array_info md;
> int fd;
>
>
> /* Open device */
> fd = open(argv[1], O_RDONLY);
> if (fd == -1) {
> printf("Could not open %s\n", argv[1]);
> exit(1);
> }
> if (ioctl(fd, GET_ARRAY_INFO, &md)) {
> printf("Error getting MD array info from %s\n", argv[1]);
> exit(1);
> }
> close(fd);
> printf("Level %d, disks=%d spare_disks=%d raid_disks=%d\n",
> md.level, md.nr_disks,
> md.spare_disks, md.raid_disks);
> return 0;
> }
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