For now, this means that the lack of a homehost doesn't always prevent
assembly.
Soon we will allow assembly anyway, but have different messages if
homehost isn't supported.
mdadm -I /dev/part-of-container
should add that to a container, creating if it needed,
and then try to assemble any arrays in the container.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
When we assemble an array, there are three different approaches
depending on whether metadata is internal or external, and on
kernel version.
Move all this to a common helper instead of duplicating in 3 places.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
The variety of approaches to 'add_disk' are factored out into
a separate function, and Incremental mode benefits by being
closer to supporting the assembly of containers.
Also remove the adding-to-array-data-structure out of sysfs_add_disk
and into add_disk.
And add some tests for --incremental mode to make sure we don't break it.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
'container_member' isn't really a well defined concept.
Each metadata might enumerate members differently, so just
let each format /mdX/YYYY as appropriate.
Some kernel versions don't put a space between 'active' and '(auto-read-only)'
in /proc/mdstat. This causes a parsing problem leaving 'level' set to
NULL which causes a crash.
So synthesise a space there if it is missing, and check for 'level' to
be NULL and don't de-ref if it is.
NeilBrown
Dan Williams