All of lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, marcin.labun@intel.com,
	Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>,
	ed.ciechanowski@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] imsm: support 'missing' devices at Create
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:26:34 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110830122634.41d69592@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110826021434.28015.93967.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>

On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:14:35 -0700 Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
wrote:

> Specifying missing devices at create is very useful for array recovery.
> 
> For imsm create dummy disk entries at init_super_imsm time, and then use
> them to fill in unoccupied slots in the final array (if the container is
> unpopulated).
> 
> If the container is already populated (has a subarray)
> 'missing' disks must be in reference to already recorded missing devices
> in the metadata.

It would appear you have also implement --assume-clean:

> -	vol->dirty = 0;
> +	vol->dirty = !info->state;

Thanks - that has been bothering me.

I'll update the commit-log to record this.

Thanks,
NeilBrown

  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-30  2:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-26  2:13 [PATCH 0/9] recovering an imsm raid5 array Dan Williams
2011-08-26  2:14 ` [PATCH 1/9] imsm: fix max disks per array Dan Williams
2011-08-26  2:14 ` [PATCH 2/9] imsm: fix, stop metadata updates to newly failed devices Dan Williams
2011-08-26  2:14 ` [PATCH 3/9] imsm: fix display spares Dan Williams
2011-08-26  2:14 ` [PATCH 4/9] sysfs: fix sysfs_disk_to_scsi_id Dan Williams
2011-08-26  2:14 ` [PATCH 5/9] imsm: fix reserved sectors for spares Dan Williams
2011-08-26 19:51   ` Williams, Dan J
2011-08-30  2:20     ` NeilBrown
2011-09-06 20:42       ` Williams, Dan J
2011-09-19 12:57         ` Czarnowska, Anna
2011-09-21  4:45           ` NeilBrown
2011-08-26  2:14 ` [PATCH 6/9] mdmon: fix, close spare activation race Dan Williams
2011-08-26  2:14 ` [PATCH 7/9] imsm: support 'missing' devices at Create Dan Williams
2011-08-30  2:26   ` NeilBrown [this message]
2011-08-26  2:14 ` [PATCH 8/9] util: allow regular files through test_partition() Dan Williams
2011-08-26  2:14 ` [PATCH 9/9] mdadm: 'dump' support Dan Williams
2011-08-30  2:58   ` NeilBrown
2011-08-30 10:12     ` Alexander Kühn
2013-05-16  5:11       ` NeilBrown
2011-08-26 11:06 ` [PATCH 0/9] recovering an imsm raid5 array linbloke
2011-08-30  3:13 ` NeilBrown

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20110830122634.41d69592@notabene.brown \
    --to=neilb@suse.de \
    --cc=dan.j.williams@intel.com \
    --cc=dave.jiang@intel.com \
    --cc=ed.ciechanowski@intel.com \
    --cc=linux-raid@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=marcin.labun@intel.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.