Bug#598957: checkarray: I: selecting idle I/O scheduling class for resync

[Dara Adib]

Looks like the message I had replied to didn't reach the bug tracker.

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Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 06:56:50 +0200
From: Florian Hinzmann <mail at fhinzmann.de>
To: Dara Adib <daradib at OCF.Berkeley.EDU>, 598957 at bugs.debian.org
Cc: Debian mdadm maintainers <pkg-mdadm-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>,
Thomas Goirand <thomas at goirand.fr>
Subject: Re: Bug#598957: checkarray: I: selecting idle I/O scheduling
class for resync


On Sun, 1 May 2011 18:19:29 -0700
Dara Adib <daradib at OCF.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:

> I made the same change in our config to this line in
> /usr/share/mdadm/checkarray:
> 
> -    echo "$PROGNAME: W: array $array in auto-read-only state,
> skipping..." >&2
> +    [ $quiet -lt 1 ] && echo "$PROGNAME: W: array $array in
> auto-read-only state, skipping..." >&2
> 
> We use mdadm with the swap partition, and generally swap is not used,
> so the array would be auto-read-only. I consider this also normal.  

Without investigating further I think this is not normal. The 
line above is a warning, not an informational message and I 
encountered read-only states only after errors so far.

If auto-read-only state is indeed a normal state, "normal"
being something like "not a consequence of an error and no
maintenance state being set manually" then the message
above should be set to "I:" beside being suppressed with
"-q" in my opinion.


Regards

 Florian