From: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
To: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@canonical.com>
Cc: Song Liu <liu.song.a23@gmail.com>,
linux-raid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-block@vger.kernel.org" <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>,
"dm-devel@redhat.com" <dm-devel@redhat.com>,
Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com>,
NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] md raid0/linear: Introduce new array state 'broken'
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 19:22:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EB40716A-CD63-46B1-97B8-B8C039E08548@fb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d0a3709e-c3a9-c0b1-c3c1-bf5a6d6932af@canonical.com>
> On Aug 21, 2019, at 12:10 PM, Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@canonical.com> wrote:
>
> On 21/08/2019 13:14, Song Liu wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>> What do you mean by "not clear MD_BROKEN"? Do you mean we need to restart
>> the array?
>>
>> IOW, the following won't work:
>>
>> mdadm --fail /dev/md0 /dev/sdx
>> mdadm --remove /dev/md0 /dev/sdx
>> mdadm --add /dev/md0 /dev/sdx
>>
>> And we need the following instead:
>>
>> mdadm --fail /dev/md0 /dev/sdx
>> mdadm --remove /dev/md0 /dev/sdx
>> mdadm --stop /dev/md0 /dev/sdx
>> mdadm --add /dev/md0 /dev/sdx
>> mdadm --run /dev/md0 /dev/sdx
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Song
>>
>
> Song, I've tried the first procedure (without the --stop) and failed to
> make it work on linear/raid0 arrays, even trying in vanilla kernel.
> What I could do is:
>
> 1) Mount an array and while writing, remove a member (nvme1n1 in my
> case); "mdadm --detail md0" will either show 'clean' state or 'broken'
> if we have my patch;
>
> 2) Unmount the array and run: "mdadm -If nvme1n1 --path
> pci-0000:00:08.0-nvme-1"
> This will result: "mdadm: set device faulty failed for nvme1n1: Device
> or resource busy"
> Despite the error, md0 device is gone.
>
> 3) echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/rescan [nvme1 device is back]
>
> 4) mdadm -A --scan [md0 is back, with both devices and 'clean' state]
>
> So, either if we "--stop" or if we incremental fail a member of the
> array, when it's back the state will be 'clean' and not 'broken'.
> Hence, I don't see a point in clearing the MD_BROKEN flag for
> raid0/linear arrays, nor I see where we could do it.
I think this makes sense. Please send the patch and we can discuss
further while looking at the code.
Thanks,
Song
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-21 19:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-16 13:40 [PATCH v2 1/2] md raid0/linear: Introduce new array state 'broken' Guilherme G. Piccoli
2019-08-16 13:41 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] mdadm: Introduce new array state 'broken' for raid0/linear Guilherme G. Piccoli
2019-08-19 18:10 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] md raid0/linear: Introduce new array state 'broken' Song Liu
2019-08-19 18:30 ` Guilherme G. Piccoli
2019-08-19 18:57 ` Song Liu
2019-08-19 19:11 ` Guilherme G. Piccoli
2019-08-19 21:57 ` Song Liu
2019-08-21 14:16 ` Guilherme G. Piccoli
2019-08-21 16:14 ` Song Liu
2019-08-21 18:06 ` Song Liu
2019-08-21 19:10 ` Guilherme G. Piccoli
2019-08-21 19:22 ` Song Liu [this message]
2019-08-22 16:16 ` Guilherme G. Piccoli
2019-08-22 8:49 ` Guoqing Jiang
2019-08-22 15:35 ` Guilherme G. Piccoli
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