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From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>,
	"Labun, Marcin" <Marcin.Labun@intel.com>,
	Linux RAID Mailing List <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Ciechanowski, Ed" <ed.ciechanowski@intel.com>,
	"Hawrylewicz Czarnowski,
	Przemyslaw" <przemyslaw.hawrylewicz.czarnowski@intel.com>
Subject: Re: More Hot Unplug/Plug work
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:19:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BD8DEB1.40801@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100429110153.7148bb9b@notabene.brown>

Neil Brown wrote:
> I'm not sure how this fits with imposing platform constraints.
> As platform constraints are closely tied to metadata types, it might be OK
> to have a metadata-specific tags (imsm=???) and leave to details to the
> metadata handler???
> 
> Dan: help me understand these platform constraints: what is the most complex
>   constraint that you can think of that you might want to impose?

At this point we really only need one constraint: prevent controller 
spanning.  If for example I take an existing imsm member off of ahci and 
reattach it via a usb-to-sata enclosure mdadm needs a policy to prevent 
associating that drive with anything on ahci.

In a pinch this policy can be disabled, but you wouldn't want to rebuild 
across usb or any other controller because the option-rom only talks 
ahci and will mark the drive missing.

So something like DOMAIN spanning=imsm, to tell mdadm to follow imsm 
rules for this domain.  Where 'spanning' is policy tag??

--
Dan


  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-29  1:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-27 16:45 More Hot Unplug/Plug work Doug Ledford
2010-04-27 19:41 ` Christian Gatzemeier
2010-04-28 16:08 ` Labun, Marcin
2010-04-28 17:47   ` Doug Ledford
2010-04-28 18:34     ` Labun, Marcin
2010-04-28 21:05       ` Doug Ledford
2010-04-28 21:13         ` Dan Williams
2010-04-30 13:38           ` Doug Ledford
2010-04-29  1:01         ` Neil Brown
2010-04-29  1:19           ` Dan Williams [this message]
2010-04-29  2:37             ` Neil Brown
2010-04-29 18:22               ` Labun, Marcin
2010-04-29 21:55               ` Dan Williams
2010-05-03  5:58                 ` Neil Brown
2010-05-08  1:06                   ` Dan Williams
2010-04-30 16:13               ` Doug Ledford
2010-04-30 11:14             ` John Robinson
2010-04-30 15:52           ` Doug Ledford
2010-04-28 20:59     ` Luca Berra
2010-04-28 21:16       ` Doug Ledford
2010-04-29 20:32 ` Dan Williams
2010-04-29 21:22 ` Dan Williams
2010-04-30 16:26   ` Doug Ledford

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