On Tuesday March 8, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Neil Brown wrote: > > Then after 20ms with no write, they are all marked 'clean'. > > Then before the next write they are all marked 'active'. > > > > As the event count needs to be updated every time the superblock is > > modified, the event count will be updated forever active->clean or > > clean->active transition. > > So.. Sorry if I'm a bit slow here.. But what you're saying is: > > The kernel marks the partition clean when all writes have expired to disk. > This change is propagated through MD, and when it is, it causes the > event counter to rise, thus causing a write, thus marking the > superblock active. 20 msecs later, the same scenario repeats itself. > > Is my perception of the situation correct?
No. Writing the superblock does not cause the array to be marked active. If the array is idle, the individual drives will be idle. > > Seems like a design flaw to me, but then again, I'm biased towards > hating this behaviour since I really like being able to put inactive > RAIDs to sleep.. Hmmm... maybe I misunderstood your problem. I thought you were just talking about a spare not being idle when you thought it should be. Are you saying that your whole array is idle, but still seeing writes? That would have to be something non-md-specific I think. NeilBrown > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
