Neil Brown
6409687b55
Kill old superblocks on create.
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Make sure old-version superblocks are not around to confuse anything
when a new array is created.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-03-28 23:22:58 +00:00
Neil Brown
e27d562bcc
Reduce dependance on MD_SB_DISKS
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--monitor should now work with arrays larger than 28 devices.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-03-28 23:02:45 +00:00
Neil Brown
bed256c241
Add information about reshape to --detail
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Also fix problems with dev names and symlinks
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-03-28 22:44:05 +00:00
Neil Brown
4027ddcaa4
Don't try to get bitmap info on old kernels.
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.. this causes silly warnings.
Unfortuantely there are 2.6 kernels which will still produce
warnings. We cannot reliable detect those.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-03-28 06:39:29 +00:00
Neil Brown
16c6fa807c
Create missing /dev files where needed.
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Whenever we need a device file to open, if one cannot be found in /dev,
create a temporary one.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-03-28 06:26:53 +00:00
Neil Brown
8352ab3e2c
Fix messy --detail output when there is a failed device.
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The missing devices show as garbage.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-03-28 05:51:50 +00:00
Neil Brown
0a416ec307
Make scanning of /dev work even if it is a symlink
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We generally don't want to follow symlinks in /dev, but if
/dev itself is a symlink, we want to follow it.
So nftw needs a bit of help.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-03-27 06:54:31 +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
ca9ce4ec3e
Add ANNOUNCE-2.4-pre1
2006-03-20 03:34:49 +00:00
Neil Brown
39c5a90983
Release 2.4-pre1
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-03-20 03:50:25 +00:00
Neil Brown
206c5eaedf
Fix a few issues with the reshape patches.
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-03-20 03:26:42 +00:00
Neil Brown
353632d927
Support restarting of a reshape on --assemble
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-03-20 03:17:31 +00:00
Neil Brown
e86c9dd6d8
Initial reshape support
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Needs work for other levels etc.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-03-13 05:51:32 +00:00
Neil Brown
8a4440794a
Add ANNOUNCE-2.3.1
2006-02-06 04:11:49 +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
561832f9d4
Some little bits and pieces...
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I'm obviously bored of writing changelog entries.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-02-02 03:19:57 +00:00
Neil Brown
881990a2e4
Fix printing of size of reiserfs filesystem.
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http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=318230
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-01-31 00:43:50 +00:00
Neil Brown
22a8899586
Sort mdstat entries so that composites are well-ordered.
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This means that "-Ds" lists arrays in an approprate order
for assembly.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-01-31 00:39:50 +00:00
Neil Brown
576d6d83af
Prefer version-1 superblocks for v.large devices.
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-01-31 00:01:48 +00:00
Neil Brown
6ee5c05a11
Report device size correctly in --detail for Large devices.
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-01-30 23:42:53 +00:00
Neil Brown
8fac0577f0
Stuff like..
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- report Intent Bitmap in --detail
- report internal bitmap in --examine
- pass' --force through to --grow --bitmap
- support v.large arrays in --grow --bitmap
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-01-30 23:23:45 +00:00
Neil Brown
91eedefcdd
Report bitmap offset when examining v1 superblock.
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-01-30 03:09:32 +00:00
Neil Brown
21e92547e7
Work towards allowing larger internal bitmaps in version1 superblocks.
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-01-30 02:57:49 +00:00
Neil Brown
3d4064cc9b
Support --help --assemble etc.
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i.e. allow '--help' to be first and still give
context sensitive help.
Also don't print truncated device-size of very large arrays.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-01-30 00:13:26 +00:00
Neil Brown
b674b5b869
Have --examine report reshape details.
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-01-27 07:28:34 +00:00
Neil Brown
6baf9a876b
Provide error message if --examine does find a valid superblock
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-01-27 06:25:55 +00:00
Neil Brown
5dd497eecb
Enable support for v.large raid1.
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clean up 'long long' usage for size of array, so that
with v-1 superblocks a raid1 larger than 2TB is possible.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-01-27 06:21:06 +00:00
Neil Brown
e5a5d81e4a
Further improvements to online help
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diff .//ReadMe.c~current~ .//ReadMe.c
2006-04-17 13:12:41 +00:00
Neil Brown
e968ba605a
Make some improvements to online help.
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-01-27 05:53:10 +00:00
Neil Brown
29e766a5f4
Minor fixes
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-01-27 04:48:28 +00:00
Neil Brown
838acbc272
Assorted fixes...
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-01-27 01:44:47 +00:00
Neil Brown
d2cd3ffc02
uhm.. assort fixes, particularly for recovery offset...
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2005-12-16 01:34:49 +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
7f48e21079
Make sure mdadm -S returns correct error code
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If a bad file names was given, exit status still 0.
If some devices couldn't be stopped for "mdadm -Ss"
exit status still 0.
Thanks: Daniel Hottinger <hotti@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2005-10-21 06:13:04 +00:00
Neil Brown
dcec9ee547
Create version-4 bitmaps if kernel supports it.
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Version-3 bitmaps are host-endian. Version-4 are little-endian
and so more portable.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2005-10-11 04:44:44 +00:00
Neil Brown
5a6d7f456a
Add 'setup' option to 'test'
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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2005-10-11 04:10:00 +00:00