--test can be given in Manage mode.
This can be used when there is an attempt to fail or remove 'faulty',
'failed' or 'detached' devices, or to re-add 'missing' devices.
If no devices were failed, removed, or re-added, then mdadm will
exit with status '2'.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
This can be used for hot-unplug. When a device has been remove,
udev can call
mdadm --incremental --fail sda
and mdadm will find the array holding sda and remove sda from
the array.
Based on code from Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Allow the name of the array stored in the metadata to be updated. In
some cases the metadata format may not be able to support this rename
without modifying the UUID. In these cases the request will be blocked.
Otherwise we allow the rename to take place, even for active arrays.
This assumes that the user understands the difference between the kernel
node name, the device node symlink name, and the metadata specific name.
Anticipating further need to modify subarrays in-place, introduce the
->update_subarray() superswitch method. A future potential use
case is setting storage pool (spare-group) identifiers.
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Support for deleting a subarray out of a container. When all subarrays
are deleted the component devices are converted back into spares, a
--zero-superblock is still needed to kill the remaining metadata at this
point. This operation is blocked when the subarray is active and may
also be blocked by the metadata handler when deleting the subarray might
change the uuid of other active subarrays. For example, with imsm,
deleting subarray 'n' may change the uuid of subarrays with indexes > n.
Deleting a subarray needs to be a container wide event to ensure
disks that record the modified subarray list perceive other disks that
did not receive this change as out of date.
Notes:
The st->subarray parsing in super-intel.c and super-ddf.c is updated to
be more strict now that we are reading user supplied subarray values.
Offline container modification shares actions that mdmon typically
handles so promote is_container_member() and version_to_superswitch()
(formerly find_metadata_methods()) to generic utility functions for the
cases where mdadm performs the operation.
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
This reverts commit fdb482f99b.
Now that containers can report state for ->container_enough we can
automatically determine when the array can be started, and no longer
need the --no-degraded hammer.
Conflicts:
Incremental.c
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Currently "mdadm -As" will process the entries in the config
file in order. If any array is a component or member of a preceding
array, that array will not be assembled.
So if there are any failures during assembly, retry those arrays,
and look until everything is assembled, or nothing more can
be assembled.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Most operations require root access. Rather than ensure we generate
the right error message when something fails because we aren't root,
check early.
Note that "--examine" does not necessarily require root, so test
for that first.
Resolves-Debian-bug: 396570
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
mdadm should not wait indefinitely when it trys to reset
superblock on device which is busy (cannot be opened).
Acked-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Artur Wojcik <artur.wojcik@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
- When --kill-superblock is used with --metadata, find every
different superblock if there are several and kill them all.
- When creating a new array, kill off any old metadata. The code
to do this was already present but has become broken over time.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
A change the reduces the size of an array always happens
before any other change. So it can cause data to be lost.
By themselves these changes are reversible. But once another
change has started, the data would be permanently lost.
So recommend data integrity be checked between a size change
and any other change.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
ie. the percent increments after which RebuildNN event is generated
This is particulary useful when using --program option, rather than
(only) syslog for alerts.
Signed-off-by: Zdenek Behan <rain@matfyz.cz>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Connect to the monitor in the old namespace and use that connection for
WaitClean requests when stopping the victim mdmon instance. This allows
ping_monitor() to work post chroot().
Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
1/ allow --size to be given with 'G' or 'T' suffix.
2/ allow size to exceed 32bits, and in that case write through sysfs.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
This allows the layout to be parsed after the current level of the
array is know, so that the level doesn't need to be given (otherwise
pointlessly) on the command line.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Bother Manage_reconfig and Grow_reshape provide for changing
the 'layout' of a faulty array. This is no necessary.
So discard Manage_reconfig and just use Grow_reshape
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
With 2.6.30 it is possible to tell the md driver to clip an array to a
size smaller than the real size of the array. This option gives
access to that feature. The size change does not persist
across restarts.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Since 2.6.16, mdstat responds to select/poll.
So in that case, increase the default poll interval to about 15
minutes.
This ensures that the background load is insignificant.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
If mdadm.conf contains
HOMEHOST <ignore>
or commandline contains
--homehost=<ignore>
then the check that array metadata mentions the given homehost is
replace by a check that the name recorded in the metadata is not
already used by some other array mentioned in mdadm.conf.
This allows more arrays to use their native name rather than having
an _NN suffix added.
This should only be used during boot time if all arrays required for
normal boot are listed in mdadm.conf.
If auto-assembly is used to find all array during boot, then the
HOMEHOST feature should be used to ensure there is no room for
confusion in choosing array names, and so it should not be set
to <ignore>.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Sometimes we want to ensure particular arrays are never
assembled automatically. This might include an array made of
devices that are shared between hosts.
To support this, allow ARRAY lines in mdadm.conf to use the word
"ignore" rather than a device name. Arrays which match such lines
are never automatically assembled (though they can still be assembled
by explicitly giving identification information on the mdadm command
line.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
This patch enables the --size parameter for build operations.
Without this, if you have a raid1, for instance, where the 2 disks are
not the exact same size, and you need to build the array but one of the
disks is not available right at the moment (maybe it's USB and it's
unplugged, or maybe it's a network disk and it's unavailable), then you
have to play some weird games to get the array to size correctly (that
is, to the size of the smaller of the two components or less).
There may be other uses for this too...
--
Paul
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
When reporting "--detail --scan", use names like /dev/md/foo where
available rather than /dev/md/127
This is particularly needed for containers where the member arrays
will report "container=/dev/md/foo" and we want the container to have
the same name.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
DDF raid6 layouts are subtly different from the standard 'md' layouts.
From 2.6.30 the kernel knows about these.
Teach mdadm about them, and also allow 'ddf' to set an appropriate default.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Currently Incremental_container is being called after adding each disk.
In the imsm case where spares are not tracked in the raid_disks field we
can use --no-degraded to block premature assembly.
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Metadata formats like imsm work in concert with platform firmware and
hardware, so provide a way for mdadm to display this info to the user.
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Its cumbersome to determine which devices to wait for in a system shutdown
script, so hook up --scan.
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Auto-assembly and planned assembly don't really work well together,
it can be confusing.
In particular in mkinitrd or similar creates an mdadm.conf to
assemble a particular array, we shouldn't go assembling any
other arrays as well.
If you want auto assembly, you need to give mdadm a config
file with no ARRAY lines.
mdadm -Ascpartitions
can do this.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Try to treat members of containers much like other arrays for
assembly.
We still look through the list of devices for a match (it will be
the container), then find the relevant 'info' and try to assemble
the array.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
i.e. in mdadm.conf you can have a line like
ARRAY uuid=whatever
and it will use auto-name-generation to give a name to the array at
assemble-time. The is different from blind auto-assembly in that the
array will be treated as 'local'.
We will shortly be feeding more information into the process of
creating array devices, so delay the creation. Still open them
early if the device already exists.
This involves making sure the autof flag is in the right place
so that it can be found at creation time.
Also, Assemble, Build, and Create now always close 'mdfd'.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
When
mdadm --assemble /dev/whatever
is given, mdadm will treat it as though '--scan' were given, even
though it wasn't.
In this case, the code opens /dev/whatever twice, which is pointless.
We already know /dev/whatever is open at this point, so remove the
'open' and the tests, and make sure it is always closed afterwards.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
This reflect that fact that more often than not it is creating things
in /dev, and allows for a new open_mddev which does just that.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
NeilBrown
Dan Williams
Artur Wojcik
Zdenek Behan
Paul Clements