If an auto-assembly attempt failes because the array cannot be
opened or because the array has already been created, then we
get into an infinite loop.
Reported-by: Dan Pascu <dan@ag-projects.com>
Fixes-debian-bug: 396582
From: Goswin Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
This is already mentioned in the config documentation, but not in the
place when the normal default is mentioned.
Fixes-debian-bug: 396914
From: Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>
- Fix a bug where mdassemble didn't close a filedescriptor and so couldn't assembele
stacked arrays.
- Allow mdassemble, when run a second time, to mark all arrays as writable.
This is useful if they are started read-only as is best at boot-time.
If not 'ftw' is available, still allow openning of devices by dev number.
More recent version of uclibc support nftw, so add support to check
for that.
Make -assemble a bit more resilient to finding strange
information in superblocks.
Don't claim newly added spares are InSync!! (don't know why that
code was ever in there)
In 2.6.17 (and prior), the dev_number is ignored when a device
is added to an active array. Rather the first free number is used.
So we work around this by making sure we use the first free
number for dev_number.
Description...
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>
When creating a file bitmap, choose a default size that
results in fewer than 2^21 chunks. Without this kmalloc
failure in the kernel becomes likely.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
This means the output of "mdadm -Es" can be used as a complete
mdadm.conf file .... if you really want to do that.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
NOTE: This is an incompatable change affecting raid5 reshape.
If you want to reshape a raid5 using version-1 superblocks,
use 2.6.17-rc2 or later, and mdadm-2.4.1 or later.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
mdadm.8 improved (I hope).
Rearrange some option documentation and add --backup-file, and other
general improvements.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
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>
Neil Brown
Goswin Brederlow
Luca Berra
Paul Clements