Neil Brown
434b77559e
--update=resync did exactly the wrong thing for version1 metadata.
2006-11-13 09:12:09 +11:00
Neil Brown
b7a708af6f
Fixed UUID printing in "--detail --brief" for version1 metadata.
2006-11-09 16:28:27 +11:00
Neil Brown
60e1bc1a33
Fixed problems that could cause infinitel loop with auto assemble.
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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
2006-11-09 09:38:50 +11:00
Goswin Brederlow
2790ffe38a
Document that the default metadata version can be overridden in config file.
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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
2006-11-09 09:37:45 +11:00
Neil Brown
d87d0978e2
Strdup the bitmap file name found in the config file
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Otherwise we quickly lose it...
2006-11-09 09:37:10 +11:00
Neil Brown
209b742f4d
Release 2-5-5
2006-11-03 14:52:28 +11:00
Neil Brown
cbfbcb0b50
Improve error message when wrong --update option is given.
2006-10-23 08:56:27 +10:00
Neil Brown
702b557b1c
Fix bugs related to raid10 and the new offset layout.
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Need to mask of bits above the bottom 16 when calculating number of
copies.
2006-10-19 16:38:29 +10:00
Luca Berra
1cac4c1b55
Don't trigger and error on -As if all arrays are already started.
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From: Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>
Put another way, if we find any active arrays, then assume things are
going as planned.
2006-10-16 15:27:48 +10:00
Luca Berra
e60c27d04e
Don't fail md_open if array already active.
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From: Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>
There is no need and it causes occasional problems.
2006-10-16 15:27:16 +10:00
Luca Berra
435d4ebb2e
Mdassemble improvements
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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.
2006-10-16 15:26:53 +10:00
Neil Brown
b39827de21
Reduce max bitmap size when bitmap is in a file.
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To ensure kernel never needs to allocate more than 1 page contiguously.
2006-10-16 15:26:43 +10:00
Neil Brown
0a816ef9fb
Don't #include blkpg.h
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Just include the content directly. It is safer.
2006-10-16 14:38:13 +10:00
Neil Brown
8e64e04456
Release 2-5-4
2006-10-13 10:12:47 +10:00
Neil Brown
0430ed4868
Remove partitions from components of an md array
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They do nothing but cause confusion.
2006-10-13 09:02:35 +10:00
Neil Brown
6ba83b5f5e
Allow a number after --auto=yes
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So if the device name is /dev/md/d0, then the number of
partitions is as given. This is useful in 'CREATE' in
mdadm.conf
2006-10-13 08:23:16 +10:00
Paul Clements
10ae45c12c
Fixed endian problem with bitmap metdata
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From: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
2006-10-09 11:17:22 +10:00
Neil Brown
83205b6419
Fix some endian-ness issues with v1 superblocks.
2006-10-09 11:17:12 +10:00
Neil Brown
38098016ca
Allow symlink creation to be disabled from command line or mdadm.conf
2006-08-11 18:00:05 +10:00
Neil Brown
60248f7433
Tidyup automatic name choice for v-1 arrays
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/dev/md_d0 now becomes '0', not '_d0'.
2006-08-07 11:30:02 +10:00
Neil Brown
43f2372a03
Fix starting of degraded arrays.
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Recent change broke assembling of degraded arrays, making
it require --run. This fixes that.
2006-08-07 11:13:01 +10:00
Neil Brown
90fc992e4e
Explicitly state GPL license in man pages.
2006-08-07 11:12:25 +10:00
Neil Brown
2a940e3619
Document usage of version0.91 superblock.
2006-08-07 11:11:42 +10:00
Neil Brown
2a91e1491e
Release 2.5.2
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Description...
2006-06-27 21:31:58 +10:00
Neil Brown
8aec876d2e
More consistent honoring of --configfile
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Never use /etc/mdadm.conf if --config file is given (previously
some code used one, some used the other).
2006-06-26 15:11:01 +10:00
Neil Brown
45e878bba6
Improve ftw handling.
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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.
2006-06-26 15:10:48 +10:00
Neil Brown
08110d41bc
Fix a recently introduced bug, and make --assemble more resilient to it.
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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)
2006-06-26 12:26:12 +10:00
Neil Brown
7eae7080e2
Work around bug in --add handling for version-1 superblocks
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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...
2006-06-26 12:26:09 +10:00
Neil Brown
c3684618b7
Add 'Array Slot' line to --examine for version-1 superblocks
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to make it a bit easier to see what is happening.
2006-06-26 12:26:01 +10:00
Neil Brown
ae184b4927
Get the changelog uptodate for recent changes.
2006-06-26 12:06:01 +10:00
Neil Brown
82d8a04691
Update Changelog for 2.5.1
2006-06-16 10:53:55 +10:00
Neil Brown
41a3b72a9c
Release 2.5
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-05-26 07:12:48 +00:00
Neil Brown
b8a8ccf945
New flag --no-degraded
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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>
2006-05-19 04:53:22 +00:00
Neil Brown
008e1100b8
Add a copy of /proc/mdstat to the mail message send by mdadm --monitor.
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-05-19 03:58:45 +00:00
Neil Brown
8131b493df
When updating uuid, update the bitmap as well - external bitmaps
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-05-16 06:05:27 +00:00
Neil Brown
120230a4fc
Detail checks if array has been started or not and includes that in report.
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-05-15 06:03:05 +00:00
Neil Brown
5bbb48424b
Allow default creation info to to be stored in mdadm.conf
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Default owner, group, mode and 'auto' flag can be given in a 'CREATE' line.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-05-15 06:02:41 +00:00
Neil Brown
1bfdbe01ff
Limit size of bitmap to 2million chunks.
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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>
2006-05-15 04:21:33 +00:00
Neil Brown
b578481ca3
Support new offset layout for raid10
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Requires 2.6.18.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-05-15 02:46:54 +00:00
Neil Brown
a99d6b669c
Assume "DEVICE partitions" if no DEVICE line present.
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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>
2006-05-15 01:58:47 +00:00
Neil Brown
d1732eebac
Arrange that SparesMissing events generate an email too.
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-05-15 01:35:47 +00:00
Neil Brown
4948b8f72e
Support 'mailfrom' line in mdadm.conf so the From: line in alert emails can be explicitly set.
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-05-15 01:27:04 +00:00
Neil Brown
ac957baa97
Fix alignment problem in version-1 superblocks.
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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>
2006-04-07 04:34:45 +00:00
Neil Brown
addc80c467
Updates to md.4
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Particularly restiping and sysfs, but a few other bits too.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-03-30 04:17:51 +00:00
Neil Brown
7ef02d0143
Support 'bitmap=' in mdadm.conf for auto-assembling arrays with write-intent bitmaps in separate files.
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-03-29 02:57:48 +00:00
Neil Brown
2ae555c3d9
Man page tidyup.
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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>
2006-03-29 02:45:06 +00:00
Neil Brown
d7514c5884
Changelog Updates
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-03-28 23:27:05 +00:00
Neil Brown
06b0d78675
Allow resize to backup to a file.
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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>
2006-03-27 06:38:46 +00:00
Neil Brown
313176636e
Remove ident arg from getinfo_super;
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Add a 'name' field to 'info' to compensate.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-03-27 04:34:38 +00:00
Neil Brown
2efedc7bd2
Put a 'canary' block in front of the backup
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.. so corruptio can be detected.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-03-27 04:14:43 +00:00
Neil Brown
1e0d770c0f
Release some compile fixes.
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-02-06 04:18:12 +00:00
Neil Brown
a92f6acc43
Update ChangeLog and release 2.3
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-02-02 05:17:24 +00:00
Neil Brown
ce4fafd637
Allow /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf as an alternate to /etc/mdadm.conf
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This provide compatability with Debian.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2005-12-09 05:01:22 +00:00
Neil Brown
f3c7fda661
Release 2.2
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2005-12-09 04:55:02 +00:00
Neil Brown
0ff1a18562
Guides on how to use mdadm with initramfs
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2005-12-05 05:56:42 +00:00
Neil Brown
7d99579f6a
Support updating of uuid during --assemble.
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2005-12-05 05:56:33 +00:00
Neil Brown
ee04451c56
Allow event counters to be off by one
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.. even without --force
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2005-12-05 05:56:18 +00:00
Neil Brown
773135f5bd
syslog support for monitor mode
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From: ross@jose.lug.udel.edu (Ross Vandegrift)
Hi Neil,
While adding the text message mode, I saw a FIXME asking for syslog
support in monitor mode.
This patch adds exactly that.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2005-12-05 05:55:56 +00:00
Neil Brown
fe394e5e42
Report which device failed in a Fail message.
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2005-12-05 05:54:59 +00:00
Neil Brown
47d79ef8e5
Support --assume-clean for --create
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2005-12-05 05:54:48 +00:00
Neil Brown
c06487ce20
Improve option parsing
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stuff
====Do Not Remove====
Status: ok
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2005-12-05 05:54:33 +00:00
Neil Brown
8b0dabea07
Allow scanning of devices listed in /proc/partitions independant of /dev
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If a device found in /proc/partitions isn't listed in /dev, then
mknod a temporary name and open that.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2005-12-05 05:52:50 +00:00
Neil Brown
d9d4e4698f
Remvoe blank line from '--examine --brief' output.
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2005-11-22 03:38:44 +00:00
Neil Brown
f9c25f1d2a
Support bitmaps with raid10
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And a couple of other little things
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2005-11-22 03:37:14 +00:00
Neil Brown
f6d75de8e0
Fix remaining problems with hot-add bitmap to version-1 superblock
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Also some more tests - r5 and r6 bitmaps
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2005-09-12 05:24:10 +00:00
Neil Brown
308e1801ba
Fix assembling of array with spares when verion-1 superblock is used.
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As spared don't have a position in the raid array with verion-1 superblocks,
we need to handle them a bit differently.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2005-09-12 05:23:11 +00:00
Neil Brown
265e0f1731
Fix assembling of raid10 in the face of missing devices.
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We now check if enough devices are present properly, so
--force can be used to good effect.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2005-09-12 04:57:52 +00:00
Neil Brown
a9d69660a3
Lots of little manpage updates.
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-08-25 05:11:29 +00:00
Neil Brown
947fd4ddb5
Support nameing of version-1 arrays.
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--name is recognised in --create and --assemble
name= is recognised in config file.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-08-09 05:23:20 +00:00
Neil Brown
dfd4d8ee42
Add write-behind support
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Currently this includes
--write-behind to set level of write-behind supported
--write-mostly to flag devices as write-mostly.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-08-09 04:25:47 +00:00
Neil Brown
586ed40547
Support fixing of byte-swapped superblocks.
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Good for moving between little-endian and big-endian.
Still needs documentation.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-08-09 04:25:27 +00:00
Neil Brown
5e7519fa84
Add test suite and release
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-08-04 04:56:22 +00:00
Neil Brown
f277ce3671
Assorted Fixes for multiple bugs.
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Assemble would crash, or just not work.
A few other problem found by a new test-suite.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-08-04 04:41:12 +00:00
Neil Brown
fe6729fa8c
Fix compilation with tinyc
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-06-14 06:43:00 +00:00
Neil Brown
ccf44f3272
Add man page for mdassemble
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-06-14 06:42:25 +00:00
Neil Brown
8f23b0b3fa
Replace sprintf calls with snprintf
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To quiet diet-libc
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-06-14 06:42:13 +00:00
Neil Brown
bd72c2b2b8
Allow --force flag with --grow
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.. so that you can 'grow' a raid1 to only one device.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-06-14 06:34:29 +00:00
Neil Brown
22892d5632
Don't list device= in --examine --scan output.
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As the device list isn't stable, recording it should be avoided.
The device= list is still available if --verbose is given (once).
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-06-14 06:34:23 +00:00
Neil Brown
b79713f8c1
When finding a /dev name for a device, prefer shorter names
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-06-14 06:33:56 +00:00
Neil Brown
60f9166418
Fix silly example
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-06-14 06:33:45 +00:00
Neil Brown
d5d3721ef4
Fix some rounding errors in human_size and generally clean up the code
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-06-14 06:33:30 +00:00
Neil Brown
5a6d1148cc
Fix parsing of /dev/md/N in is_standard
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-06-14 06:33:24 +00:00
Neil Brown
a46f4061d3
Fix a few typecasts
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-06-14 06:33:16 +00:00
Neil Brown
1337546dc1
Allow --auto to still be meaningful when --scan is given
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-06-14 06:33:02 +00:00
Neil Brown
891d299451
Fix typo in --grow --help - don't claim '-F'
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-06-14 06:32:42 +00:00
Neil Brown
3fa06e9d37
Make type of uuid always int[], rather than sometimes __u32[]
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-06-14 06:32:34 +00:00
Neil Brown
91f068bf5c
Retry --stop --scan until all stoppable devices have been stopped
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This is needed to reliably stop stacked arrays
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-06-14 06:32:18 +00:00
Neil Brown
b8f72a621b
Document SparesMissing and DeviceDisappeared/WrongLevel
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-06-14 06:31:34 +00:00
Neil Brown
779043efce
Document --size=max option for --grow
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-06-14 06:31:19 +00:00
Neil Brown
0bbc98b563
Avoid using lstat, it isn't right.
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-06-14 06:30:03 +00:00
Neil Brown
e793c2e583
2.0-devel-1 release
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-06-07 23:03:47 +00:00
Neil Brown
a3fd117c7a
Change "dirty" status to "active"
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Description...
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-06-07 23:16:36 +00:00
Neil Brown
e5811618d1
Release 1.11.0
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-05-03 23:42:53 +00:00
Neil Brown
0fbf459d0d
Fix embarassing bug in 1.10.0 which broke --add
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Use a different variable to old result of open
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-04-11 00:20:03 +00:00
Neil Brown
b2b46bfc89
Call 'flush' after writing a superblock to disk.
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Just in case...
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-04-04 06:05:07 +00:00
Neil Brown
d7eaf49f65
Use O_EXCL when opening component devices to be assembled into an array
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In 2.6, this will fail if the device is already in use, so we can detect this error
more easily.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-04-04 06:02:49 +00:00
Neil Brown
0320ea4565
Change handling of devices names in args
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-04-04 05:18:57 +00:00
Neil Brown
e6b64cd05c
Improve error message when mode is set twice.
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-04-04 05:16:29 +00:00
Neil Brown
6f7e85bd16
Correct error message printed when the 'chosen_drive' cannot be added.
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-04-04 05:16:26 +00:00
Neil Brown
d17c1f8cbd
Reverse order of arrays when --stop --scan
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so that stacked arrays are stopped properly.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
2005-04-04 05:16:24 +00:00