From: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
This one actually does a couple things. Mainly related to raid4, but
kinda touches other raid levels some.
When creating a raid4 array, treat it like a raid5 array in that we
create it in degraded mode by default and add the last disk as a spare.
Besides speeding things up, this has a second effect that it makes mdadm
more consistent. In order to create a degraded raid5 array, you need
only passing missing as one of the devices. For a degraded raid4 array,
prior to this patch, you must pass assume-clean or else it refuses to
create the array. Even force won't make it work without assume-clean.
With the patch, raid4 behaves identical to raid5.
Separate from that, the monitor functionality completely ignores raid4
arrays. That seems to stem from the code that checks to see if the
array is part of a long list of types. It seems easier to check which
array types *aren't* redundant instead of listing the ones that are
redundant and missing some of them. This makes the monitor service
actually watch raid4 arrays.
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.
From: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
When running with SELinux enabled and using mdadm to monitor devices,
attempts to send emails to an admin will be blocked because mdadm is
holding open /proc/mdstat without setting the FD_CLOEXEC flag. As a
result, sendmail has an open descriptor to /proc/mdstat after the
popen() call, which SELinux decides isn't really any of sendmail's
business and so sendmail gets denied.
From: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Simple bugfix. If an array already exists and we are asked to create
this array, error out with an error message that makes sense to people
instead of an error that the SET_ARRAY_INFO ioctl had an invalid
argument. Plus a typo correction.
From: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
OK, this one fixes an issue where people were doing manual array
creation and specifying superblock types other than 1.0 (aka, 1.1, 1.2)
and then using mdadm -Ebs to populate their mdadm.conf file. The
general problem is that if you specify a superblock type in the ARRAY
line (or on the command line), then you must specify the superblock type
*exactly*, including the minor version. Unfortunately, mdadm -Ebs
prints out all version 1 superblocks, regardless of minor version, as
just plain old 1. This breaks the mdadm.conf file for anything other
than plain version 1 superblock devices.
So, since I thought it was basically backwards that the mdadm -E output
was lax on specifying the location of the superblock where as the mdadm
-A input was strict, I reversed that. With this patch, the mdadm -E
output is now exact for any given superblock. But, in addition, the
mdadm -A input is now lax for any superblock that doesn't specifically
list the minor version, aka version 1 now means version 1, not version
0.90, but any minor version. So does default/large.
The new superblock needs to have a new disk.number. This is a bit of a hack...
Fix handling of negative bitmap offsets on 64bit hosts.
The bitmap offset is a signed 32bit number, so casting to (long)
isn't sufficient. We must cast to (int32_t).
Fix various problems with --grow --add for linear.
The code to add a drive to a live linear array had never
been tested properly and so was buggy. This tidies it up
and means that the new regression-test passes.
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>
From: Peter Samuelson <peter@p12n.org>
nroff formats "-" as the very short hyphen used for hyphenated terms
and for splitting a word across two lines. When you want a literal
ASCII "-", like for typing on a command line, you're supposed to use
"\-" instead.
Yeah, it sounds pedantic, but it actually makes a difference. With
modern Unicode-capable terminals, "man" actually renders these with
different characters, so if you try to search for "--create" in your
favorite pager, you won't find it unless the nroff source says
"\-\-create". This discrepancy doesn't generally show up with
non-Unicode terminals.
Signed-Off-By: Peter Samuelson <peter@p12n.org>
From: Peter Samuelson <peter@p12n.org>
Option names and example command lines seem to be boldface most of the
time, fix up the few that weren't.
Signed-Off-By: Peter Samuelson <peter@p12n.org>
From: Peter Samuelson <peter@p12n.org>
\(em renders as "--" in ASCII, and a nice em dash (i.e., a dash the
width of the letter "m") in more capable formats like PostScript.
Signed-Off-By: Peter Samuelson <peter@p12n.org>
From: Peter Samuelson <peter@p12n.org>
do not hyphenate terms:
"override", "therein", "overwrite", "superblock format".
Signed-Off-By: Peter Samuelson <peter@p12n.org>
If two drives in a raid5 disappear at the same time, then "-Af"
will add them both in rather than just one and forcing the array
to 'clean'. This is slightly safer in some cases.
Doug Ledford
Neil Brown
David Huffman
Kay Sievers
Peter Samuelson