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>
Previously it was possible to set the WRITEMOSTLY flag when
adding a device to an array, but not to clear the flag when re-adding.
This is now possible with --readwrite.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
For use in distro shutdown scripts with a RAID root file system.
Returns immediately if the array is 'readonly', or not an externally
managed array. It is up to the distro's scripts to make sure no new
writes hit the device after this returns 'true'.
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
If an array is being managed by mdmon, then just
write "inactive" to stop it, and let mdmon do the
final "clear". This makes sure mdmon has a chance
to read the final state and update the metadata properly.
After writing "inactive" with use "ping_monitor" to synchronise
with mdadm, then STOP the array just in case it is still running,
else we will get into an infinite loop in "mdadm -Ss".
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
1/ close a race where multiple arrays disappear at once
and monitor isn't woken up to find out that the last one
has gone.
2/ "mdadm -Ss" needs to pause briefly for mdmon to exit.
If you have stacked arrays, then
mdadm -As --homehost=fred
should work but doesn't. It gets into an infinite loop!
So write some tests, and fix the bugs.
The current model for creating arrays involves writing
a superblock to each device in the array.
With containers (as with DDF), that model doesn't work.
Every device in the container may need to be updated
for an array made from just some the devices in a container.
So instead of calling write_init_super for each device,
we call it once for the array and have it iterate over
all the devices in the array.
To help with this, ->add_to_super now passes in an 'fd' and name for
the device. These get saved for use by write_init_super. So
add_to_super takes ownership of the fd, and write_init_super will
close it.
This information is stored in the new 'info' field of supertype.
As part of this, write_init_super now removes any old traces of raid
metadata rather than doing this in common code.
From: Ian Dall <ian@beware.dropbear.id.au>
I have a small patch to mdadm which allows the write-behind amount to be
set a array grow time (instead of currently only at grow or create
time). I have tested this fairly extensively on some arrays built out of
loop back devices, and once on a real live array.
From: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
This one fixes a bug where once manage mode is set, the -a short option
is no longer parsed correctly (true of grow mode as well). This happens
because when you switch the short opts to the bitmap_auto version, it
specifies that the argument must follow a, yet the loop expects to get
an undecorated option and parse it as the disk dev instead of trying to
parse optarg. So, create a new short opt array that is used for manage
and grow that doesn't list a as having an argument.
udev likes to get information about a device as key=value pairs so it
can create disk/by-id links etc. So add --export flag which causes
the output of --detail to easily parsable.
From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@novell.com>
NeilBrown
Paul Clements
Dan Williams
Hans Lambermont
Kay Sievers
Ian Dall
Doug Ledford
Kay Sievers