container_content retrieves volume information from disks in the
container. For unsupported volumes the function was not returning
mdinfo. When all volumes were unsupported the function was returning
NULL pointer to block actions on the volumes. Therefore, such volumes
were not activated in Incremental and Assembly. As side effect they
also could not be deleted using kill-subarray since "kill" function
requires to obtain a valid mdinfo from container_content.
This patch fixes the kill-subarray problem by allowing to obtain
mdinfo of all volumes types including unsupported and introducing new
array.status flags.
There are following changes:
1. Added MD_SB_BLOCK_VOLUME for blocking an array, other arrays in the
container can be activated.
2. Added MD_SB_BLOCK_CONTAINER_RESHAPE block container wide reshapes
(like changing disk numbers in arrays).
3. IMSM container_content handler is to load mdinfo for all volumes
and set both blocking flags in array.state field in mdinfo of
unsupported volumes. In case of some errors, all volumes can be
affected. Only blocked array is not activated (also reshaped as
result). The container wide reshapes are also blocked since by
metadata definition they require modifications of both arrays.
4. Incremental_container and Assemble functions check array.state and
do not activate volumes with blocking bits set.
5. assemble_container_content is changed to check container wide reshapes
before activating reshapes of assembled containers.
6. Grow_reshape and Grow_continue_command checks blocking bits
before starting reshapes or continueing (-G --continue) reshapes.
7. kill-subarray ignores array.state info and can remove requested array.
Signed-off-by: Marcin Labun <marcin.labun@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
We need to refuse to assemble an arrays with bad blocks.
Initially there was condition in container_content function
that returns error value in the case when metadata store information
about bad blocks.
When the container_content function is called from functions NOT connected
with assemble (Kill_subarray, Detail) we get faulty error return value.
Patch introduces new flag in array.status - MD_SB_BBM_ERRORS. It is set
in container_content when bad blocks are detected and can be checked by
container_content caller.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Wojcik <krzysztof.wojcik@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Previously such things did not exist: ACTIVE and SYNC were either both
set or both clear. Recent changes with reshape means that a device
can be ACTIVE but not yet fully in-sync, so they need to be handled
and included in the array as active devices.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Currently this includes
--write-behind to set level of write-behind supported
--write-mostly to flag devices as write-mostly.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
NeilBrown
Labun, Marcin
Krzysztof Wojcik