It makes more sense to test for container_dev than for subarray
for several places in Create where it then uses container_dev.
This allows us to subsequently remove subarray.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Now that we can ask container_content for a specific subarray,
we don't need to pass the subarray name to load_super, and have it
secretly modify the returned state.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
This allows the info for a single array to be extracted,
so we don't have to write it into st->subarray.
For consistency, implement container_content for super0 and super1,
to just return the mdinfo for the single array.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
We don't need ->container_dev here, and we will soon be passing
subarray as an explicit arg to load_super.
So simplify extraction of subarray and move the strcpy close to
->load_super.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Rather than hiding this in the 'st', return it explicitly.
In the one case we still need it, copy it into st where needed.
This will disappear in a future patch.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Rather than hiding this arg in the 'st' structure, pass it explicitly.
This is a first step to getting rid of 'subarray' from 'supertype'.
The strcpy in open_subarray should have better error checking, but it
will disappear soon so there is little point.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de.
We were setting ->container_member twice in ddf get_info.
Once to currentconf->vcnum,
once to atoi(st->subarray).
Both should be the same.
For consistency with super-intel, use the first.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
If the first device found has a much smaller event count than a
subsequent device, that device will not be entered in the 'avail'
array properly.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
If a device - typically in a mirrored set - is assembled independently
of the other devices, and then attempted to be brought back into the
set it could contain inconsistent data. It should not be included.
So detect this situation by ensuring that the 'most recent' device is
believed to be active by every other device. If a device is wayward,
it will only consider fellow wayward devices to be active and will
think all others are failed or missing.
This patch only fixes --assemble, not --incremental
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To accurately detect when an array has been split and is now being
recombined, we need to track which other devices each thinks is
working.
We should never include a device in an array if it thinks that the
primary device has failed.
This patch just allows get_info_super to return a list of devices
and whether they are thought to be working or not.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Detail: report reshape and check as well as resync and recovery
Wait: if the resync is pending or delayed, wait for that too.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
If an --add is requested and a re-add looks promising but fails or
cannot possibly succeed, then don't try the add. This avoids
inadvertently turning devices into spares when an array is failed but
the devices seem to actually work.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
pol_sort could go into an infinite loop.
The proof of this patch is left as a exercise for the reader :-)
Reported-by: "Hawrylewicz Czarnowski, Przemyslaw" <przemyslaw.hawrylewicz.czarnowski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
If an --update is requested by the relevant metadata doesn't
understand it, print a useful message rather than silently ignoring
the issue.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
If a device is bare and policy suggests that it can be used as a spare
for virtual 'partitions' array, find an appropriate partition table
and write it to the device.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Allow disk-policy to be computed given the path and
disk type explicitly. This can be used when hunting through
/dev/disk/by-path for something interesting.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Adding a spare to a group of partitioned devices is quite different
from adding one to an array. So detect which option is worth trying
based on policy and then try one or the other - or possibly both - as
appropriate.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To support incorpating a new bare device into a collection of arrays -
one partition each - mdadm needs a modest understanding of partition
tables.
The main needs to be able to recognise a partition table on one device
and copy it onto another.
This will be done using pseudo metadata types 'mbr' and 'gpt'.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
If a device is less than 1K, avoid even trying to seek to 1K before
the end.
The seek will fail anyway so this is a fairly cosmetic fix.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
If policy allows act_spare or act_force_spare, -I will add a
bare device as a spare to an appropriate array.
We don't support adding non-bare devices as spares yet.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
When we find a device that was recently part of the array but is now
out of date (based on the event count) we might want to add it back in
(like --re-add) if the likely cause was a connection problem or we
might not if the likely cause was device failure.
So make this a policy issue: if action=re-add or better, try to re-add
any device that looks like it might be part of the array.
This applies:
when we assemble the array: old devices will be evicted by the
kernel and need to be re-added.
when we assemble the array during --incr for the same reason.
when we find a device that could be added to a running array.
This doesn't affect arrays with external metadata at all.
For such arrays:
When the container is assembled, the most recent instance of each
device is included without reference to whether it is too old or not.
Then the metadata handler must which slices of which devices to
include in which array and with what state. So the
->container_content should probably check the policy and compare the
sequence numbers/event counts.
When a device is added (--add) to a container with active arrays
we only add as a 'spare'. --re-add doesn't seem to be an option.
When a device is added with -I ->container_content gets another
chance to assess things again. So again it should check the policy.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
A device can be in a number of domains.
The domains of an array is the union of the domains of all devices.
A device is allowed to join an array when its set of domains is a
subset of the array's domains.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Policy can be stated as lines in mdadm.conf like:
POLICY type=disk path=pci-0000:00:1f.2-* action=ignore domain=onboard
This defines two distinct policies which apply to any disk (but not
partition) device reached through the pci device 0000:00:1f.2.
The policies are "action=ignore" which means certain actions will
ignore the device, and "domain=onboard" which means all such devices
as treated as being united under the name 'onboard'.
This patch just adds data structures and code to read and
manipulate them. Future patches will actually use them.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
If udev is not in use, we create device in /dev when assembling
arrays and remove them when stopping the array.
However it may not always be correct to remove the device. If
the array was started with kernel auto-detect, them mdadm didn't
create anything and so shouldn't remove anything.
We don't record whether we created things, so just don't remove
anything with a 'standard' name. Only remove symlinks to the
standard name as we almost certainly created those.
Reported-by: Petre Rodan <petre.rodan@avira.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
/dev could be read-only in which case we cannot make devices
there.
So dev_open should first try to use an existing device name,
and if that doesn't work try creating a node in /dev or /tmp.
Reported-by: Paweł Sikora <pluto@agmk.net>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Commit 3a6ec29ad5 stopped us from adding apparently-working devices
to an active array with --incremental as there is a good chance that they
are actually old/failed devices.
Unfortunately it also stopped spares from being added to an active
array, which is wrong. This patch refines the test to be more
careful.
Reported-by: <fibreraid@gmail.com>
Analysed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Commit 3288b419 (Revert "Incremental: honor --no-degraded to delay assembly")
killed the --no-degraded flag since commit 97b4d0e9 (Incremental: honor
an 'enough' flag from external handlers) made this the default behavior
of -I, and brought -I usage for external/container formats in line with
native metadata. However, this breaks existing usages of '-I
--no-degraded', so allow it as a deprecated option.
Starting a degraded container, like the native metadata case, requires -R.
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reported-by: Ignacy Kasperowicz <ignacy.kasperowicz@intel.com>
Commit 97b4d0e9 "Incremental: honor an 'enough' flag from external
handlers" introduced a regression in that it changed the error return
code for successful invocations.
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reported-by: Ignacy Kasperowicz <ignacy.kasperowicz@intel.com>
Having multiple possible locations and guessing where best to put the
file is too messy, confusing and makes locking problematic.
So just keep it in /dev/.mdadm/map. It is a horrible place but it is
really all we have. System integrators can change this easily at
build time.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
nr_disks is just wrong here - the arrays need room for all disk slots,
even if some are empty, plus spares, plus a possible backup file.
So raid_disks is correct.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
There 'rv' tests were confused and sometimes wrong.
This resulted in not writing the second bsb.
Also fix the test script so the the critical section is long enough
that we have some hope of interrupting it.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
NeilBrown
Dan Williams