Code in manager can now just call queue_metadata_update with a
(freeable) buf holding the update, and it will get passed to the
monitor and written out.
'container_member' isn't really a well defined concept.
Each metadata might enumerate members differently, so just
let each format /mdX/YYYY as appropriate.
I want the metadata handler to have more control over the 'version',
particularly for arrays which are members of containers.
So discard st->text_version and instead use info->text_version
which getinfo_super can initialise.
mark_dirty is just a special case of mark_clean - with sync_pos == 0.
mark_sync is not required. We don't modify the metadata when sync
finishes. Only when the array becomes non-writeable at which point we
use mark_clean to record how far the resync progressed.
From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Added curr_state as a parameter to set_disk. Handlers look at this to
record components failures, and set global 'degraded' or 'failed'
status.
When reading the state as faulty:
1/ mark the disk failed in the metadata
2/ write '-blocked' to the rdev state to allow the kernel's failure
mechanism to advance
3/ the kernel will take away the drive's role in remove_and_add_spares()
4/ once the disk no longer has a role writing 'remove' to the rdev state
will get the disk out of array.
There is a window after writing '-blocked' where the kernel will return
-EBUSY to remove requests. We rely on the fact that the disk will
continue to show faulty so we lazily wait until the kernel is ready to
remove the disk. If the manager thread needs to get the disk out of the
way it can ping the monitor and wait, just like the replace_array()
case.
[buglet fix: swap the parameters of attr_match in read_dev_state]
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Create a ddf array by naming the device /dev/ddf* or
specifying metadata 'ddf'.
If ddf is specified with no level, assume a container (indeed,
anything else would be wrong).
**Need to use text_Version to set external metadata...
More ddf support
Load a ddf container. Now
--examine /dev/ddf
works.
super-ddf: fix compile warning
From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
super-ddf.c:723: format %lu expects type long unsigned int, but argument 3 has type unsigned int
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
From: Iustin Pop <iusty@k1024.org>
There are many questions on the mailing list about the RAID1 read
performance profile. This patch adds a new paragraph to the RAID1
section in md.4 that details what kind of speed-up one should expect
from RAID1.
Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <iusty@k1024.org>
When adding new disk to an array, don't reserve so much bitmap
space that the disk cannot store the required data. (Needed when
1.x array was created with older mdadm).
Dan Williams
Neil Brown
Iustin Pop