If two drives in a raid5 disappear at the same time, then "-Af"
will add them both in rather than just one and forcing the array
to 'clean'. This is slightly safer in some cases.
If an auto-assembly attempt failes because the array cannot be
opened or because the array has already been created, then we
get into an infinite loop.
Reported-by: Dan Pascu <dan@ag-projects.com>
Fixes-debian-bug: 396582
If they are for a partition and a whole device (common case)
they old message doesn't really cover the situation. So add
the "overlap" option to the text.
Also detect whether the device list was in mdadm.conf and
act accordingly.
Make -assemble a bit more resilient to finding strange
information in superblocks.
Don't claim newly added spares are InSync!! (don't know why that
code was ever in there)
As version-0.90 superblock don't record the superblock
offset, it is possible for overlapping partitions,
or a partition that starts on a 64K boundary in the whole device
to result in mis-detection - one partition or device might
be detected where the other was intended.
To avoid this awkward possibility, we reject assembly attempts
which seem to have two devices that are different but have the
same version-0.90 superblock.
To avoid this problem altogether, switch to version-1 metadata.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
From: Luca Berra <bluca@vodka.it>
glibc 2.4 is pedantic on ignoring return values from fprintf, fwrite and
write, so now we check the rval and actually do something with it.
in the Grow.c case i only print a warning, since i don't think we can do
anything in case we fail invalidating those superblocks (is should never
happen, but then...)
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
This can be used to bootstrape homehost tagging.
If no arrays are found that are tagged, we look for any array
and tag it.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
This cannot be used yet, but it is working towards auto-assembly.
When auto-assembling an array, we make a name in /dev/md/
giving a number (from the peferred minor) or name (from set-name).
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
i.e. if assembling with --name or --super-minor, then if we find two
different arrays with the same apparent identity, and one was built
for 'this' host, then prefer that one instead of giving up in disgust.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
We make sure all devices can are consistent before doing any --update
This saves us from updating some but not all of an array, and then
aborting.
It also means we can backtrack on out decisions, which we might want to
do later.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Use to avoid starting arrays if there are
fewer devices available than last time the array was started.
This is only needed with --scan, as with --scan, that behaviour
is the default.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To support resizing an array without a spare, mdadm now understands
--backup-file=
which should point to a file for storing a backup of critical data.
This can be given to --grow which will create the file, or
--assemble which will restore from the file if needed.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
As spared don't have a position in the raid array with verion-1 superblocks,
we need to handle them a bit differently.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Neil Brown