From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
To: Linux RAID <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: mdadm --size and --update=uuid etc options...
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 13:49:53 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43941B51.5090601@tls.msk.ru> (raw)
I found it's quite difficult, after resizing underlying
partitions, to compute the new size for
mdadm /dev/mdX -G --size=xyz
command, because of the way how it finds the superblock
offset. So, the question is -- is it possible to make
the argument of --size to be optional, and let mdadm to
compute the size automatically, just like resize2fs does
now? Or, maybe, to keep backward compatibility for
those people who used --size z (as opposed to --size=z),
to recognize `0' as special size, to mean "whole partition"
or "max size". The latter is probably the best, i think.
The same is for newly appeared --update=uuid:xyz: I'd let
mdadm to choose an uuid just like it does for newly create
array, if the uuid argument isn't specified, like:
--update=uuid:1234 --- use uuid=1234
--update=uuid --- choose random uid
Does it all look ok?
/mjt, who goes to produce some patches...
next reply other threads:[~2005-12-05 10:49 UTC|newest]
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2005-12-05 10:49 Michael Tokarev [this message]
2005-12-05 11:46 ` mdadm --size and --update=uuid etc options Neil Brown
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