On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:31:55 -0400 Bill Davidsen [off-list ref] wrote:

Can someone point me to the docs to have a process run or notified when a RAID 
event triggers? I've been playing with some recovery ideas, but polling states 
and status is not the proper way to do this, and I want to test with a user 
program before I start putting patches in the kernel.

I guess you don't mean "run mdadm --monitor --program /bin/myscript" ??

Do you want "just any event" or some specific set of events?

See mdstat_wait in mdstat.c in the mdadm sources.  It waits for any event by
using 'select' on /proc/mdstat.

void mdstat_wait(int seconds)
{
	fd_set fds;
	struct timeval tm;
	int maxfd = 0;
	FD_ZERO(&fds);
	if (mdstat_fd >= 0) {
		FD_SET(mdstat_fd, &fds);
		maxfd = mdstat_fd;
	}
	tm.tv_sec = seconds;
	tm.tv_usec = 0;
	select(maxfd + 1, NULL, NULL, &fds, &tm);
}


mdstat_fd is a global variable 
    mdstat_fd = open("/proc/mdstat", O_RDONLY);

NeilBrown