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52 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Neil Brown 8a46fe8487 Allow autoassembly to choose it's own name for the array.
This cannot be used yet, but it is working towards auto-assembly.

When auto-assembling an array, we make a name in /dev/md/
giving a number (from the peferred minor) or name (from set-name).

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-05-23 06:46:40 +00:00
Neil Brown 83b6208e89 When assembly arrays using incomplete detail, prefer arrays built for this host.
i.e. if assembling with --name or --super-minor, then if we find two
different arrays with the same apparent identity, and one was built
for 'this' host, then prefer that one instead of giving up in disgust.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-05-23 06:33:28 +00:00
Neil Brown 811e6cbed7 Reorganise Assemble code somewhat.
We make sure all devices can are consistent before doing any --update
This saves us from updating some but not all of an array, and then
aborting.

It also means we can backtrack on out decisions, which we might want to
do later.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-05-23 06:12:40 +00:00
Neil Brown 624920bbb6 Make sure name matching for array assembly understand the possibility of a homehost
This "--assemble --name=foo" on host 'bar' will assemble an array named
'foo' or 'bar:foo'.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-05-23 05:24:22 +00:00
Neil Brown c4f12c1340 Allow --update=name to update the name during assembly.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-05-23 04:57:04 +00:00
Neil Brown e5eac01f3d Make sure homehost is set correctly when --update=uuid
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-05-23 04:51:39 +00:00
Neil Brown 4f589ad0c5 Just updaqte copyright dates and email address
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-05-19 05:25:11 +00:00
Neil Brown b8a8ccf945 New flag --no-degraded
Use to avoid starting arrays if there are
fewer devices available than last time the array was started.
This is only needed with --scan, as with --scan, that behaviour
is the default.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-05-19 04:53:22 +00:00
Neil Brown 8131b493df When updating uuid, update the bitmap as well - external bitmaps
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-05-16 06:05:27 +00:00
Neil Brown 7ef02d0143 Support 'bitmap=' in mdadm.conf for auto-assembling arrays with write-intent bitmaps in separate files.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-03-29 02:57:48 +00:00
Neil Brown 06b0d78675 Allow resize to backup to a file.
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>
2006-03-27 06:38:46 +00:00
Neil Brown 313176636e Remove ident arg from getinfo_super;
Add a 'name' field to 'info' to compensate.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-03-27 04:34:38 +00:00
Neil Brown 39c5a90983 Release 2.4-pre1
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-03-20 03:50:25 +00:00
Neil Brown 353632d927 Support restarting of a reshape on --assemble
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-03-20 03:17:31 +00:00
Neil Brown 838acbc272 Assorted fixes...
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-01-27 01:44:47 +00:00
Neil Brown 7d99579f6a Support updating of uuid during --assemble.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2005-12-05 05:56:33 +00:00
Neil Brown ee04451c56 Allow event counters to be off by one
.. even without --force

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2005-12-05 05:56:18 +00:00
Neil Brown c06487ce20 Improve option parsing
stuff

====Do Not Remove====
Status: ok
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2005-12-05 05:54:33 +00:00
Neil Brown 8b0dabea07 Allow scanning of devices listed in /proc/partitions independant of /dev
If a device found in /proc/partitions isn't listed in /dev, then
mknod a temporary name and open that.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2005-12-05 05:52:50 +00:00
Neil Brown 308e1801ba Fix assembling of array with spares when verion-1 superblock is used.
As spared don't have a position in the raid array with verion-1 superblocks,
we need to handle them a bit differently.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2005-09-12 05:23:11 +00:00
Neil Brown 265e0f1731 Fix assembling of raid10 in the face of missing devices.
We now check if enough devices are present properly, so
--force can be used to good effect.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2005-09-12 04:57:52 +00:00
Neil Brown 6a41304b05 Fix but when assembling v1 arrays
Because raid_disk and disk.number are not longer in-sync,
it needed some work.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-08-15 06:35:38 +00:00
Neil Brown dab6685f3d Add 'quite' option and tidy up some tests.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-08-15 06:14:27 +00:00
Neil Brown 947fd4ddb5 Support nameing of version-1 arrays.
--name is recognised in --create and --assemble
name= is recognised in config file.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-08-09 05:23:20 +00:00
Neil Brown 586ed40547 Support fixing of byte-swapped superblocks.
Good for moving between little-endian and big-endian.
Still needs documentation.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-08-09 04:25:27 +00:00
Neil Brown f277ce3671 Assorted Fixes for multiple bugs.
Assemble would crash, or just not work.
A few other problem found by a new test-suite.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-08-04 04:41:12 +00:00
Neil Brown fbf8a0b7a6 Document this...
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-07-18 01:30:42 +00:00
Neil Brown 96395475fc Make --zero-superblock work for version 1 superblocks.
This requires passing the supertype to store_super

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-06-07 23:03:45 +00:00
Neil Brown 11484a635a Fix a test that will allow arrays with bitmaps to be assembled.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-06-07 23:03:47 +00:00
Neil Brown c82f047cfc Initial bitmap support
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-06-07 23:16:35 +00:00
Neil Brown 82d9eba687 super1
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Fix raid5 creation with new code.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-05-03 23:44:40 +00:00
Neil Brown f9ce90ba50 Add a 'super-switch' so that different format superblocks can be used.
This includes:
  adding --metadata= option to choose metadata format
  adding metadata= word to config file.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-05-03 23:44:32 +00:00
Neil Brown 4b1ac34b51 Separate sueprblock handling into separate file
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-05-03 23:44:18 +00:00
Neil Brown d7eaf49f65 Use O_EXCL when opening component devices to be assembled into an array
In 2.6, this will fail if the device is already in use, so we can detect this error
more easily.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-04-04 06:02:49 +00:00
Neil Brown 6f7e85bd16 Correct error message printed when the 'chosen_drive' cannot be added.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-04-04 05:16:26 +00:00
Neil Brown 0df46c2ad8 Change MAJOR() etc to major() etc
This allows for larger device number if glibc supports
it (requires 2.3.3).
Also fail before creating larger device number if glibc
support isn't present.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-04-04 05:16:13 +00:00
Neil Brown e5329c3747 mdadm-1.7.0 2004-08-11 02:16:01 +00:00
Neil Brown 98c6faba80 mdadm-1.5.0 2004-01-22 02:10:29 +00:00
Neil Brown feb716e9c3 mdadm-1.4.0 2003-10-28 23:20:01 +00:00
Neil Brown aa88f531b4 mdadm-1.3.0 2003-07-28 23:59:00 +00:00
Neil Brown 56eedc1a3f mdadm-1.2.0 2003-03-12 22:24:39 +00:00
Neil Brown d013a55e94 mdadm-1.1.0 2003-03-02 23:11:38 +00:00
Neil Brown 5787fa4906 mdadm-1.0.9 2003-02-12 00:17:26 +00:00
Neil Brown e0d1903663 mdadm-0.8 2002-04-04 01:58:32 +00:00
Neil Brown 11a3e71da4 mdadm-0.7.2 2002-03-20 22:39:50 +00:00
Neil Brown 9a9dab3670 mdadm-0.7 2002-03-08 00:03:52 +00:00
Neil Brown cd29a5c835 mdctl-0.6 2002-03-06 23:17:40 +00:00
Neil Brown 5282684628 mdctl-0.5 2001-08-23 02:33:20 +00:00
Neil Brown 0db17fcbde mdctl-v0.4.2 2001-07-26 20:47:22 +00:00
Neil Brown 82b27616de mdctl-v0.4 2001-07-26 07:00:09 +00:00