Some people want to create truely enormous arrays.
As we sometimes need to hold one file descriptor for each
device, this can hit the NOFILE limit.
So raise the limit if it ever looks like it might be a problem.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
This allows the smooth conversion of legacy 0.90 arrays
to 1.0 metadata.
Old metadata is likely to remain but will be ignored.
It can be removed with
mdadm --zero-superblock --metadata=0.90 /dev/whatever
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
raid10 currently uses the 'backup_blocks' field to store something
else: a minimum offset change.
This is bad practice, we will shortly need to have both for RAID5/6,
so make a separate field.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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>
With the 'devnm' infrastructure fixed, it is quite easy to support
names like "md_home" for md arrays.
The currently defaults to "off" and can be enabled in mdadm.conf with
CREATE names=yes
This is incase other tools get confused by the new names.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
We widely use a "devnum" which is 0 or +ve for md%d devices
and -ve for md_d%d devices.
But I want to be able to use md_%s device names.
So get rid of devnum (a number) and use devnm (a 32char string).
eg.
md0
md_d2
md_home
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
the code that was exposed on anything else than dietlibc and klibc
is entirely glibc specific and broke the build on musl libc.
Signed-off-by: John Spencer <maillist-mdadm@barfooze.de>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
We still allow --offroot to be given - for compatibility with scripts
- but ignore it.
The whole point of --offroot is to get systemd to not auto-kill mdmon,
and we always want that.
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
map_dev can be slow so it is best to not call it when
not necessary.
The final test in "find_free_devnum" is not relevant when
udev is being used, so remove the test in that case.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
--replace can be used to replace a device without completely failing
it. Once the replacement completes the device will be failed.
--with can indicate which of several spares to use.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
mdadm --create /dev/md0 .... /dev/sda1:1024 /dev/sdb1:2048 ...
The size is in K unless a suffix: K M G is given.
The suffix 's' means sectors.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Some arrays (raid10) never need a backup file, so during assembly
we can avoid the whole Grow_continue check in that case.
Achieve this using a flag set by the metadata handler.
Also get "mdadm -I" to fail if a backup process would be
needed. It currently does fail as the kernel rejects things,
but it is nicer to have this explicit.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
This can be used to over-ride the automatic assignment of
data offset.
For --create, it is useful to re-create old arrays where different
defaults applied.
For --grow it may be able to force a reshape in the reverse direction.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
This is currently only useful for 1.x metadata and will allow an
explicit --data-offset request on command line.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
We will shortly introduce --data-offset= which is allowed to
be zero. We will want to use parse_size() so it needs to be
able to return '0' without it being an error.
So define INVALID_SECTORS to be an impossible value (currently '1')
and return and test for it consistently.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
1/ When printing the "name=" entry for --brief output,
enclose name in quotes if it contains spaces etc.
Quotes are already supported for reading mdadm.conf
2/ When a name is used as a device name, translate spaces
and tabs to '_', as well as the current translation of
'/' to '-'.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
When using human_size_brief, only IEC prefixes were supported. Now
it's possible to specify which format we want to see - either IEC
(kibi, mibi, gibi) or JEDEC (kilo, mega, giga).
Signed-off-by: Maciej Naruszewicz <maciej.naruszewicz@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
An error in parse_size() should be reported by 0, not -1,
because -1 is changed to the max value of unsigned long long
during calculations of size (e.g. at mdadm.c:412).
A negative value of size should be reported as error
(e.g. size equal -1 has been changed to the max value of
unsigned long long so far).
Signed-off-by: Lukasz Dorau <lukasz.dorau@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Both are impossible, and '1' allows size to be unsigned,
which is neater.
Also #define MAX_SIZE to be '1' to make it all more explicit.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
The value of 'verbose' is sometimes mixed into 'brief', particularly
for Examine.
This is messy and confusing. So keep them separate.
'brief' still gets assumed when 'scan' is set, unless we are very
verbose.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
If we change some functions to accept 'verbose', where <0 means to be
quiet, in place of 'quiet', then we will be able to merge
'quiet' and 'verbose' together for simplicity.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Rather than passing a long list of little flags etc to various
functions we will soon pass a small collection of structures.
This first step combines a collection of variables local to
'main' into a single structure.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
NeilBrown
John Spencer
Jes Sorensen
Maciej Naruszewicz
Lukasz Dorau