.UR URL
text
.UE
is meant to create a hyperlink from the 'text' to the 'URL'.
But I wanted just to have the URL, so UR isn't really the right
tool - the URL gets displayed twice.
So just display the URL in bold and assume man2html etc can recognise
it and do the right thing.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
If we add a device to a linear array which is a difference size
to the other devices in the array then, for v1.x metadata, we need to
make sure the size is correctly reflected in the superblock.
Showing e.g.
near=1, far=2
for the 'far2' layout of raid10 is confusing even though there is a
sense in which is it correct.
Make it less confusing by only printing whichever number is not 1.
If both are 1, make that clear too (i.e. no redundancy).
When adding a device to an array, we check that it is large enough.
Currently the check makes sure there is also room for a reasonably
sized bitmap. But if the array doesn't have a bitmap, then this test
might be too restrictive.
So when adding, only insist there is enough space for the current
bitmap.
When Creating, still require room for the standard sized bitmap.
This resolved Debian Bug 500309
Fix on call that passed an invalid mode to open
Don't pass a third arg unless we also pass O_CREAT
Use symbolic args for 2nd and 3rd args
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Two places that should have been .B or .I were .M, which of
course is an error.
So fix these and that the opportunity to be more consistent
with highlighting of "mdadm". Make it always italic except when
used as a literal example, then bold.
It is important that dup_super always returns an 'st' with the same
->ss and ->minor_version as the st that was passed.
This wasn't happening for 0.91 metadata (i.e. in the middle of a reshape).
Since we made free_super a superswitch call, we need to be careful
that st is non NULL before calling st->ss->free_super(st).
Also when updating byteorder there is a chance of a similar NULL
deref.
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.
From: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
mdadm --incremental doesn't really do any locking. If you get multiple
events in parallel for the same device (that has not yet started), they
will all go down the path to create the array. One will succeed, the
rest will have SET_ARRAY_INFO die with -EBUSY (md: array mdX already has disks!)
and will exit without adding the disk.
Original bug report is: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433932
This is solved by adding very very rudimentary locking. Incremental() now
opens the device with O_EXCL to ensure only one invocation is frobbing the
array at once. A simple loop just tries to open 5 times a second for 5
seconds. If the array stays locked that long, you probably have bigger
issues.
There is still a problem: If array is partially assembled and started
read-only, the last device doesn't get added properly. Probably a kernel
problem.
This did not work before as we couldn't mark it clean as there would
be some parity blocks out of sync, and raid6 will not assemble a
dirty degraded array.
So make such arrays doubly degraded (the last device becomes a spare)
and clean.
NeilBrown
Doug Ledford
Pascal Charest
Chris Webb
David Greaves
Hans Lambermont
Kay Sievers
Dan Williams
Bill Nottingham