[ On Wednesday, August 25, 2004 at 08:32:29 (+0200), Matthias Scheler wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: bin/26741: "raidctl -S" doesn't always work as expected
>
> That would result in something like ...
> 
> Parity status: DIRTY
> Reconstruction is 100% complete.
> Parity Re-write is 100% complete.
> Copyback is 100% complete.

Indeed it does.

> ... which looks wrong, too.

Well it certainly seems a heck of a lot better than saying "100%
complete" about everything when there's an obvious problem with the RAID
set....


> I wonder why RAIDFRAME_CHECK_RECON_STATUS
> return 100% if the reconstruction hasn't even started.

It's the status of the _previous_ operation when one is not ongoing.

That seems logical enough to me.  :-)

How's it supposed to know what the operator might do in the future?

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