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>
- 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>
Support "--build"ing arrays with bitmaps.
hot-removal of bitmaps
--re-add of drives recently removed.
assorted extra tests
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
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>
This includes:
adding --metadata= option to choose metadata format
adding metadata= word to config file.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
This allows for larger device number if glibc supports
it (requires 2.3.3).
Also fail before creating larger device number if glibc
support isn't present.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>