Appologies if this is the wrong mailing list for this patch.
This is a very small patch for the manual page for the mdadm utility.
Thanks,
Andrew
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To date, the manpage did not make it clear under which circumstances
Rebuild events are generated, leading to a question on the mailing
list as to whether it is normal for these events to be generated
while checking an array.
So clarify that all operations that act on the entire array are in
scope. The list is given as "e.g.", because it might grow in the
future as other full-array operations are added.
Reported-by: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Ceuleers <jan.ceuleers@computer.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
--incremental currently fails if the device name passed does not
textually match the names permitted by the DEVICE line in mdadm.conf.
This is problematic when "mdadm -I" is run by udev as the name given
can be a temp name.
This patch makes two improvements:
1/ We generate a list of all existing devices that match the names
in mdadm.conf, and allow rdev based matching
2/ We allows extra aliases to be provided on the command line, and
perform textual matching on those. This is particularly suitable
for udev usages as ${DEVLINKS} can be provided even though the links
make not yet be created.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
If --export is given with --incremental, then
MD_DEVNAME
is output which gives the name of the device (in /dev/md) that
is the array (or container) that the device would be added to.
Also
MD_STARTED
is set to one of
no
unsafe
yes
nothing
to indicate if the array was started. IF MD_STARTED=unsafe
then it may be appropriate to run
mdadm -R /dev/md/$MD_DEVNAME
after a timeout to ensure newly degraded array are started.
If
MD_FOREIGN=yes
it might be appropriate to suppress this as the array is
probably not critical.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
--add-spare is like --add, but a --re-add is never attempted.
So it is equivalent to two separate commands:
--zero-metadata
--add
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
I found a small bug in the documentation of mdadm. I fixed it in my
local git clone of git://neil.brown.name/mdadm Here is the change:
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
If a distribution allows the choice between using mdadm and
dmraid for DDF and IMSM to be made by some config file
(/etc/defaults/ /sys/sysconfig/ etc) which is queried by
/etc/init.d scripts, then the fact that mdadm implements this
choce through the config file is not very helpful.
So allow the "AUTO" line to be specified in part using MDADM_CONF_AUTO
in environment.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
If a configfile is explicitly given, just that file or directory
is read. Otherwise we now read both a file
/etc/mdadm.conf
and a directory
/etc/mdadm.conf.d
This allows a transition to directory based config, which in turn
allows easy control from scripts.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
This allows the smooth conversion of legacy 0.90 arrays
to 1.0 metadata.
Old metadata is likely to remain but will be ignored.
It can be removed with
mdadm --zero-superblock --metadata=0.90 /dev/whatever
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
This allows the metadata on a device to be saved and later restored.
This can be useful before experimenting on an array that is misbehaving.
Suggested-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
With the 'devnm' infrastructure fixed, it is quite easy to support
names like "md_home" for md arrays.
The currently defaults to "off" and can be enabled in mdadm.conf with
CREATE names=yes
This is incase other tools get confused by the new names.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
A RAID10 array can have 'sets' of devices which are reported by
--detail.
They can now be collectively failed or removed.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Here, "large" means components are 100G or more. It is
usually beneficial to have write-intent bitmaps on such arrays.
They can be suppressed with --bitmap=none
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
We still allow --offroot to be given - for compatibility with scripts
- but ignore it.
The whole point of --offroot is to get systemd to not auto-kill mdmon,
and we always want that.
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
mdadm /dev/mdXX --re-add faulty
will identify any faulty devices in the array, remove them, and
--re-add them.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
--replace can be used to replace a device without completely failing
it. Once the replacement completes the device will be failed.
--with can indicate which of several spares to use.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
And here's another trivial bugfix, now for spelling mistakes in various
places, authred by Sergey Kirpichev (Cc'ed) and carried in debian mdadm
package.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
mdadm --create /dev/md0 .... /dev/sda1:1024 /dev/sdb1:2048 ...
The size is in K unless a suffix: K M G is given.
The suffix 's' means sectors.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
This can be used to over-ride the automatic assignment of
data offset.
For --create, it is useful to re-create old arrays where different
defaults applied.
For --grow it may be able to force a reshape in the reverse direction.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
--update=bbl will add a bad block list to each device.
--update=no-bblk will remove the bad block list providing that it
is empty.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Now that /run seems to be a good standard, make that
the default for storing various run-time files, rather than
/var/run or /dev/.mdadm.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Both --detail and --monitor can report the names of member
devices on an array, and do so by searching /dev and finding
the shortest name that matches.
If
--prefer=foo
is given, they will instead prefer a name that contain /foo/.
So
mdadm --detail /dev/md0 --prefer=by-path
will list the component devices via their /dev/disk/by-path/xxx
names.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
manpage for mdadm(8) contains typo - missing "d" at the end of "describe" word.
Signed-off-by: Roman Ovchinnikov <coolthecold@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
When --offroot is specified, mdadm will change the first character of
argv[0] to '@'. This is used to signal to systemd that mdadm was
launched from initramfs and should not be shut down before returning
to the initramfs.
Acked-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Patch adds to mdadm man the following information:
--continue
This option is complementary pair to assembly --freeze-reshape option.
It is needed when --grow operation is interrupted and it is not restarted
automatically due to --freeze-reshape usage during array assembly.
Option --continue has to be used together with -G , ( --grow ) command
and device that it should be executed on. All parameters required for
reshape continuation will be read from array metadata. If initial
--grow command had required --backup-file= option to be set,
continuation option will require to have exactly the same backup
file pointed to also.
Any other parameter passed together with --continue option will be ignored.
Signed-off-by: Adam Kwolek <adam.kwolek@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Patch adds to mdadm man the following information:
--freeze-reshape
Option is intended to be used in start-up scripts during initrd boot
phase. When array under reshape is assembled during initrd phase,
this option stops reshape after reshape critical section is being
restored. This happens before file system pivot operation and avoids lost
of file system context. Loosing file system context would cause
reshape to be broken.
Reshape can be continued later using -continue option for grow command.
Signed-off-by: Adam Kwolek <adam.kwolek@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
This set the metadata to 1.2, not 1.0.
When the default was changed to 1.2 I forgot to update this part of
the man page.
Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/607375
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
- explain it's use in guarding against small replacements
- clarify relationship with containers.
- include information about --grow --size not being supported by IMSM metadata.
Reported-by: maciej.naruszewicz <maciej.naruszewicz@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Fix random typos and add a few of missing words/macros.
Also update RAID website URL as it is not accessible anymore.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
NeilBrown
Andrew Burgess
Jan Ceuleers
John Schmidt
Christoph Anton Mitterer
Jes Sorensen
Michael Tokarev
Maciej Naruszewicz
CoolCold
Adam Kwolek
Namhyung Kim