So when you say auto=md or auto=part in mdadm.conf, it give a preference
for type of array, but standard name will override.
But --auto=md is more insistant.
FIXME I'm not at all happy about handling of names that already exist.
I don't think that should be removed if the device is active.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
When creating a file bitmap, choose a default size that
results in fewer than 2^21 chunks. Without this kmalloc
failure in the kernel becomes likely.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
This means the output of "mdadm -Es" can be used as a complete
mdadm.conf file .... if you really want to do that.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
A pending patch to the kernel causes bitmap file updates
to not go through the page cache, so O_DIRECT is needed to
ensure that we read current data.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
For 'force' and 'assemble', update_super must return true
if anything was changed.
Also fix a bug with wonly handling in super0.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
### Diffstat output
./super0.c | 18 ++++++++++++++----
./super1.c | 7 +++++++
2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff ./super0.c~current~ ./super0.c
There are 64 partitions per device, not 16.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
### Diffstat output
./sysfs.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff ./sysfs.c~current~ ./sysfs.c
NOTE: This is an incompatable change affecting raid5 reshape.
If you want to reshape a raid5 using version-1 superblocks,
use 2.6.17-rc2 or later, and mdadm-2.4.1 or later.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
The following patch makes it possible to tag a device as write-mostly on
--add and --re-add with a non-persistent superblock array. Previously,
this was not working.
Signed-Off-By: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
mdadm.8 improved (I hope).
Rearrange some option documentation and add --backup-file, and other
general improvements.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
.. this causes silly warnings.
Unfortuantely there are 2.6 kernels which will still produce
warnings. We cannot reliable detect those.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
We generally don't want to follow symlinks in /dev, but if
/dev itself is a symlink, we want to follow it.
So nftw needs a bit of help.
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>
Neil Brown