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From: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] md bitmap bug fixes
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:33:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050318103326.GA18819@marowsky-bree.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16950.5692.594941.130741@cse.unsw.edu.au>

On 2005-03-15T09:54:52, Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote:

> It arbitrarily chooses one.  It doesn't matter which.  The code
> currently happens to choose the first, but this is not a significant choice.

True enough. I had a typical case of tomatoes. Thanks.

> > I think each disk needs to have it's own bitmap in the long run. On
> > start, we need to merge them.
> 
> I think any scheme that involved multiple bitmaps would be introducing
> too much complexity.  Certainly your examples sound very far fetched
> (as I think you admitted yourself).  But I always try to be open to
> new ideas.

For single node operations, yes. But disks appearing and reappearing is
_mostly_ a cluster issue, and there it makes sense, because of the
potentially diverging data in case both sides activate the mirrors.


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>

-- 
High Availability & Clustering
SUSE Labs, Research and Development
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - A Novell Business

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-18 10:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-09 22:18 [PATCH 1/2] md bitmap bug fixes Paul Clements
2005-03-09 22:19 ` [PATCH 2/2] " Paul Clements
2005-03-14  4:43 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Neil Brown
2005-03-14  9:44   ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2005-03-14 10:22     ` Neil Brown
2005-03-14 11:24       ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2005-03-14 22:54         ` Neil Brown
2005-03-18 10:33           ` Lars Marowsky-Bree [this message]
2005-03-18 12:52             ` Peter T. Breuer
2005-03-18 13:42               ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2005-03-18 14:50                 ` Peter T. Breuer
2005-03-18 17:03                   ` Paul Clements
2005-03-18 18:43                     ` Peter T. Breuer
2005-03-18 19:01                       ` Mario Holbe
2005-03-18 19:33                         ` Peter T. Breuer
2005-03-18 20:24                           ` Mario Holbe
2005-03-18 21:01                             ` Andy Smith
2005-03-19 11:43                             ` Peter T. Breuer
2005-03-19 12:58                               ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2005-03-19 13:27                                 ` Peter T. Breuer
2005-03-19 14:07                                   ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2005-03-19 15:06                                     ` Peter T. Breuer
2005-03-19 15:24                                       ` Mario Holbe
2005-03-19 15:58                                         ` Peter T. Breuer
2005-03-19 16:24                                       ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2005-03-19 17:19                                         ` Peter T. Breuer
2005-03-19 17:36                                           ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2005-03-19 17:44                                         ` Guy
2005-03-19 17:54                                           ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2005-03-19 18:05                                             ` Guy
2005-03-19 20:29                                             ` berk walker
2005-03-19 18:11                                           ` Peter T. Breuer
2005-03-18 19:43                       ` Paul Clements
2005-03-19 12:10                         ` Peter T. Breuer
2005-03-21 16:07                           ` Paul Clements
2005-03-21 18:56                             ` Luca Berra
2005-03-21 19:58                               ` Paul Clements
2005-03-21 20:45                                 ` Peter T. Breuer
2005-03-21 21:09                                   ` Gil
2005-03-21 21:19                                   ` Paul Clements
2005-03-21 22:15                                     ` Peter T. Breuer
2005-03-22 22:35                                     ` Peter T. Breuer
2005-03-21 21:32                                   ` Guy
2005-03-22  9:35                                 ` Luca Berra
2005-03-22 10:02                                   ` Peter T. Breuer
2005-03-23 20:31                                     ` Luca Berra
2005-03-25 18:51                                       ` Peter T. Breuer
2005-03-25 20:54                                         ` berk walker
2005-03-25 20:56                                           ` berk walker
2005-03-18 17:16                 ` Luca Berra
2005-03-18 17:57                   ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2005-03-18 21:46                   ` Michael Tokarev
2005-03-19  9:05                     ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2005-03-19 12:16                     ` Peter T. Breuer
2005-03-19 12:34                       ` Michael Tokarev
2005-03-19 12:53                         ` Peter T. Breuer
2005-03-19 16:08                           ` "Robust Read" (was: [PATCH 1/2] md bitmap bug fixes) Michael Tokarev
2005-03-19 17:03                             ` "Robust Read" Peter T. Breuer
2005-03-19 20:20                               ` Michael Tokarev
2005-03-19 20:56                                 ` Peter T. Breuer
2005-03-19 22:05                                   ` Michael Tokarev
2005-03-19 22:30                                     ` Peter T. Breuer
2005-03-15  4:24   ` [PATCH 1/2] md bitmap bug fixes Paul Clements
2005-03-17 20:51   ` [PATCH 0/3] md bitmap-based asynchronous writes Paul Clements
2005-03-17 20:53     ` [PATCH 1/3] md bitmap async write enabling Paul Clements
2005-03-17 20:55       ` [PATCH 2/3] md bitmap async writes for raid1 Paul Clements
2005-03-17 20:56         ` [PATCH 3/3] mdadm: bitmap async writes Paul Clements
2005-03-21  4:21     ` [PATCH 0/3] md bitmap-based asynchronous writes Neil Brown
2005-03-21 16:31       ` Paul Clements
2005-03-21 22:09         ` Neil Brown
2005-03-22  8:35           ` Peter T. Breuer

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