The dumped metadata files are shown as below
localhost:~ # ll -ih test/
total 16K
34565564 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1.0G Dec 14 21:15
scsi-0QEMU_QEMU_HARDDISK_drive-scsi0-0-0-3
34565563 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1.0G Dec 14 21:15
scsi-0QEMU_QEMU_HARDDISK_drive-scsi0-0-0-4
34565563 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1.0G Dec 14 21:15 sda
34565564 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1.0G Dec 14 21:15 sdb
It reports such error when trying to restore metadata for /dev/sda
localhost:~ # mdadm --restore=test /dev/sda
mdadm: test/scsi-0QEMU_QEMU_HARDDISK_drive-scsi0-0-0-4 is not the same
size as /dev/sda - cannot restore.
It's because the stb value has been changed to other metadata file in
the while statement.
Signed-off-by: Lidong Zhong <lidong.zhong@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jsorensen@fb.com>
This allows the metadata on a device to be saved and later restored.
This can be useful before experimenting on an array that is misbehaving.
Suggested-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Lidong Zhong
Anthony Youngman
NeilBrown