Bug#560432: turn on enclosure LEDs when a component device fails

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Robert Edmonds <edmonds at debian.org> [2009.12.11.0751 +0100]:
> according to http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/3/193,
> 
>     "You can flash the various blinky lights by echoing to the fault and
>     locate files."
> 
> my SAS/SES-2 based array appears to support this:
> 
>     .../sys/block/sda/device/enclosure_device:000$ grep . *
>     active:0
>     fault:0
>     locate:0
>     status:OK
>     type:array device
> 
> it would be nice if mdadm could automatically turn on the fault light of
> an underlying block device when a component device fails.

That's too specific a feature for mdadm I feel. However, you can
define a hook with the PROGRAM directive in mdadm.conf.

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