GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 580475
"RAID array running in degraded mode" notification
Last modified: 2012-12-22 12:00:29 UTC
Similar to the uninitialized disk notification in bug 580126, we should notify user when his RAID{1,5,6...} arrays are running in degraded mode (due to some HW error). Implementation is easy (checking gdu_device_linux_md_is_degraded() bit), let's talk about the UI here. ATA SMART warning or degraded MD RAID warning, I think we can use common warning icon and only distinguish the warning in the popup menu. So that we would have "[Presentable_Icon] <Presentable_Name> - Disk is failing" "[Presentable_Icon] <Presentable_Name> - Array is degraded" as originally proposed in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=575572#c10 Libnotify bubble alert is common in the current code, we should consider splitting it up and present user what's going on: "One or more hard disks report health problems." vs. "Your RAID array is running in degraded mode. There is a chance of data loss when a drive fails."
Created attachment 170823 [details] [review] Naive implementation Here is a very simple patch by Julien Blache that abuses the current SMART notification code to display RAID failures as well.
Fixed, see http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-disk-utility/commit/?id=613ab998e12277f2fd7dd68792ce276a73ada130 This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.
Awesome, thanks !