Rather than hiding this arg in the 'st' structure, pass it explicitly.
This is a first step to getting rid of 'subarray' from 'supertype'.
The strcpy in open_subarray should have better error checking, but it
will disappear soon so there is little point.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de.
To support incorpating a new bare device into a collection of arrays -
one partition each - mdadm needs a modest understanding of partition
tables.
The main needs to be able to recognise a partition table on one device
and copy it onto another.
This will be done using pseudo metadata types 'mbr' and 'gpt'.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Support for deleting a subarray out of a container. When all subarrays
are deleted the component devices are converted back into spares, a
--zero-superblock is still needed to kill the remaining metadata at this
point. This operation is blocked when the subarray is active and may
also be blocked by the metadata handler when deleting the subarray might
change the uuid of other active subarrays. For example, with imsm,
deleting subarray 'n' may change the uuid of subarrays with indexes > n.
Deleting a subarray needs to be a container wide event to ensure
disks that record the modified subarray list perceive other disks that
did not receive this change as out of date.
Notes:
The st->subarray parsing in super-intel.c and super-ddf.c is updated to
be more strict now that we are reading user supplied subarray values.
Offline container modification shares actions that mdmon typically
handles so promote is_container_member() and version_to_superswitch()
(formerly find_metadata_methods()) to generic utility functions for the
cases where mdadm performs the operation.
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
mdadm should not wait indefinitely when it trys to reset
superblock on device which is busy (cannot be opened).
Acked-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Artur Wojcik <artur.wojcik@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
- When --kill-superblock is used with --metadata, find every
different superblock if there are several and kill them all.
- When creating a new array, kill off any old metadata. The code
to do this was already present but has become broken over time.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
We really want --zero-super --force to zero the superblock in
all situations. So don't open with O_EXCL - trust the user.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Using buffered IO risks non-atomic updates to parts of the
device that we don't actually want to write to. This isn't in
general safe.
So switch to O_DIRECT for all that IO and make sure we have
properly aligned buffers.
The current model for creating arrays involves writing
a superblock to each device in the array.
With containers (as with DDF), that model doesn't work.
Every device in the container may need to be updated
for an array made from just some the devices in a container.
So instead of calling write_init_super for each device,
we call it once for the array and have it iterate over
all the devices in the array.
To help with this, ->add_to_super now passes in an 'fd' and name for
the device. These get saved for use by write_init_super. So
add_to_super takes ownership of the fd, and write_init_super will
close it.
This information is stored in the new 'info' field of supertype.
As part of this, write_init_super now removes any old traces of raid
metadata rather than doing this in common code.
When an array is created, if the homehost is know,
the superblock gets it, either in the uuid, (via sha1)
or in the name field.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
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>
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>